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?"

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

learned an incredible amount of information

always wondered where Duke Whirlwind actually was. Warrior's Paradise didn't have any kind of fancy palace or something. There also weren't many Apprentices or Adepts here. Sure, there were some, but definitely not enough to create an

the north of the northeastern forest. It was close to

Line also sent their

the

Mage Academy itself was basically its own

to lots of natural Mana. Warrior's Paradise had a gigantic Mana

Adepts needed lots of Mana

that place was

had Wind Mana from the Storm Eagle Zone, and 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, near

also present since the Ice Wyvern Zone had

and Metal

Mage Academy didn't accept students with Fire, Lightning, or

wait, didn't Mattheo have a Fire

was also the only Fire

Mattheo's teacher. Of course, the

things, Mattheo

how good was the Mage

wasn't amazing, but it definitely also wasn't

graduated

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

this world

a Commander Stage warrior was

also amazing, but not

for a warrior, reaching the Commander Stage was the equivalent of being a

but one still

teacher Loran appeared and called Astor

noticed Shang, and his brows furrowed, but he

Shang had

all, the teachers were responsible for protecting their students on this day. If a student died under their supervision, it would be

they wanted, they could probably increase their quota, but it

obviously, had a lot of power and a lot of confidence, which was why he took

"Shang."

looked over when he heard his name, and