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?"

the lessons revolved around the upcoming Day of Chaos, which was why Shang knew so much about it

learned an incredible amount of information in the

Shang had 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

was a big Mage Academy to the north of the northeastern

their food to that Mage

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

itself was

Warrior's Paradise had a gigantic Mana Austerum in the middle, throwing the balance of Mana

Adepts needed lots of Mana around

that place

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

was also present since the Ice Wyvern Zone had

Metal Mana

didn't accept students with Fire, Lightning, or

didn't Mattheo have a Fire

the only Fire Apprentice in the entire

Paradise as Mattheo's teacher. Of

general things, Mattheo had the

how good was the

wasn't amazing, but it definitely also

graduated as True

all, a True Mage was on the same level as a Commander

end, this world

Commander Stage warrior was

Mage was also amazing, but

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

one's Ph.D. It was definitely amazing, but one still needed to

while of talking, teacher Loran

and his brows furrowed, but

how Shang had

After all, the teachers were responsible for protecting their students on this

teacher's confidence in their power. If they wanted, they could probably

power and a lot of confidence, which was why he took a whole 15 students with

"Shang."

when he heard his name,