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?"

couple of days, basically all the lessons revolved around the upcoming Day

had learned an incredible amount of

Whirlwind actually was. Warrior's Paradise didn't have any kind of fancy palace or something. There also weren't

big Mage Academy to the north of the northeastern forest. It was close to

Line also sent their food to

Warrior's Paradise, the Mage Academy wasn't

itself was basically its

because of the access to lots of natural Mana. Warrior's Paradise had a gigantic Mana Austerum in the middle, throwing the balance of Mana

of Mana around

place was

and Poison Mana. There were also a couple of Ice

Mana was also present since the Ice Wyvern Zone had a lot of

Lightning, and Metal Mana were rare

of that, the Mage Academy didn't accept students

didn't Mattheo have

also the only Fire Apprentice in the entire

as Mattheo's teacher. Of course, the Fire Mage only taught Mattheo about Fire Mage-specific

things, Mattheo had the Mage

was

was average. It wasn't amazing, but it

students graduated

Academy so amazing? After all, a True Mage was on the same level as a Commander Stage warrior, and the Warrior's Academy was

end, this

a Commander Stage warrior was

was also amazing,

Commander Stage was the equivalent of

Mages, it would be equivalent to getting one's Ph.D. It was definitely amazing, but one still

a while of talking, teacher Loran appeared and

his brows furrowed, but he didn't

guess how Shang had managed to

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

them showed a teacher's confidence in their power. If they wanted,

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

"Shang."

heard his name,