Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang and Astor talked for quite a while. Since Astor now viewed Shang as someone on his level, he had many questions about how Shang managed to hunt so many powerful beasts.

The same thing was true for Shang. He was interested in how Astor was able to be so powerful while having a Water Affinity.

Water Affinities were only good for healing. That was how everyone viewed them.

They had nearly no offensive capabilities.

They had nearly no defensive capabilities.

A Water Affinity was essentially only good for healing.

However, Astor managed to make his Water Affinity work. Even more, there were advantages to Astor's Water Affinity that he couldn't even show in training.

For example, Astor could gather his Water Mana to a part of his body and rapidly heal that part. During class, this power was useless since no one got injured very often.

Having a Water Affinity wasn't as useful as having a warrior's body when it came to healing, but it definitely was better than having any other Affinity.

A warrior's body healed the body automatically by directly converting Mana. A Water Affinity would need to actively be manipulated to heal the correct place, which would take time, concentration, and more Mana in total.

Of course, the tradeoff was that a warrior's body basically made it impossible to have much control over one's Affinity, to begin with.

Advantages and disadvantages.

"Is Mattheo also here?" Shang asked.

"No," Astor answered. "Mattheo is with the Mage Academy."

"The one north of the northeastern forest?" Shang asked. He had learned a lot during the last two weeks.

"Yes, that one," Astor answered.

"That's also where Duke Whirlwind lives, right?"

"Correct," Astor said. "Duke Whirlwind wouldn't want his son to be here during the Day of Chaos. After all, it isn't only the Storm Eagle Zone that goes through it."

Shang nodded. "The Empress Cobra also leaves on this day, right?"

of days, basically all the lessons revolved around the upcoming Day of Chaos, which was why Shang knew

had learned an incredible amount of information in

palace or something. There also weren't many Apprentices or Adepts here. Sure, there were some,

a big Mage Academy to the north of

Farm Line also sent their food to that Mage

to Warrior's Paradise, the Mage Academy wasn't inside

was

Mana. Warrior's Paradise had a gigantic

lots of Mana around them

place

if they traveled a bit to the east, they had access to Water and Poison Mana. There were also a couple of Ice Apprentices in the school, but they lived more towards the northwest,

was also present since the Ice Wyvern

Fire, Lightning, and Metal Mana were rare

Mage Academy didn't accept students

didn't Mattheo

correct. However, he was also the

Warrior's Paradise as Mattheo's teacher. Of course, the Fire Mage only taught Mattheo about Fire

things, Mattheo had the

was the Mage

amazing, but

of students graduated as

was on the same level as a Commander Stage warrior, and the Warrior's Academy was famous

end, this

a Commander Stage warrior

was also

reaching the Commander Stage was the equivalent of being a multi-millionaire. It was essentially the goal

would be equivalent to getting one's Ph.D. It was definitely amazing, but one still needed to find a

teacher Loran appeared and called Astor

Shang, and his

guess how Shang had

protecting their students on this

a way, taking a student with them showed a teacher's confidence in their power. If they wanted,

of confidence,

"Shang."

his name, and