Sword God in a World of Magic

During the first Day of Chaos, Shang had been under Yiral's protection the entire time. If Yiral hadn't been there, Shang would have died many times over.

During the second Day of Chaos, Shang managed to survive on his own. Well, at least as long as one ignored all the guards that dealt with all the beasts.

Shang had learned even more during his second Day of Chaos, and he took a several-days-long break from his classes to work on his own fighting style.

Shang returned to class, but his Battle-Strength seemingly hadn't changed.

That was because he was fighting humans.

When it came to beasts, Shang had become much more powerful over the last couple of days.

A month passed.

"Guess who's back!" Astor shouted with a wide smile as he arrived at the Preparation Grade Caterpillar Class lesson.

Astor had reached the Peak Soldier Stage!

Shang only smirked.

The two of them quickly fought.

Shang lost horribly.

By now, Shang was slightly above-average in the Preparation Grade Caterpillar Class, while Astor was outstanding.

He could already attempt to fight for the top spot in the Preparation Grade.

After the fight, Astor looked at Shang with shock.

"Man, you've become really powerful!" he said. "It's hard to imagine that you have only been here for a bit more than half a year!"

Yes, Astor had won convincingly, but the fight hadn't been easy for him. He didn't need to unleash his Affinity, but he had to fight with everything else he had.

For the first time, Shang could see his actual progress.

Astor was no longer a level weaker than Shang, but Shang had still managed to fight him for quite some time.

Of course, this fight had been a one-time thing. Shang was still a bit too weak to teach Astor something right now.

Because of that, Shang had to fight someone else from the Preparation Grade while Astor fought the most powerful students.

Another month passed.

"You will join the next practical lesson and watch from the side."

Shang looked with shock at the person that had suddenly spoken to him.

It was Vice-Dean Ranos!

Vice-Dean Ranos had never spoken to Shang!

"Yes?" Shang asked.

"You should know enough about Mages by now, and the Dean needs you to prove your power against Mages in the future," Vice-Dean Ranos told Shang. "The procedure is to close the gap between warriors and Mages, and winning against Mages is the best way to prove that the procedure works."

"For now, you don't need to fight them. Simply watch the other students fight them and learn from their fights."

Shang only nodded. "Alright. I also think it might be time for me to see how warriors and Mages fight."

Vice-Dean Ranos

couple of days later, Shang followed the red uniforms of the Preparation Grade to the Mage's Academy north of the northeastern Wild

the students fight each

It was a massacre.

that their control over their Affinities had spiked to a ridiculous degree. At that point, the advantage of the Mages had already

it would only grow more and more pronounced

that specialized in dealing with Mages only managed to win one out of

didn't ridicule the warriors. Instead, they were rather

though the Mages won nearly every fight, none of the fights were

watched the students fight, he realized the most important things when it came to fighting

delight, these things were identical to what one needed

Speed, adaptability, and flexibility.

warrior had to close the distance to be a threat to a Mage, which made

the multitude of

flexibility was important to dodge

of these things were important against beasts

that, most of his nervousness

to fight Mages. Luckily, his fighting style against beasts was already

red uniforms every

warmed up to Shang

normal people

had done something

feared the oppressive power

wanted to fight against the most powerful humans in

Everyone had different reasons.

Another month passed.

with a polite smile as he joined the

saw Mattheo, but that was quickly replaced by

lot about battle

time, Shang could

Mattheo was great, but he wasn't at the

a Mage, Mattheo

in front

was standing in front of someone at the

smiled politely.

didn't know how

an

before," Mattheo

a deep

as a warrior,

of

Who won?

Mattheo.

he had won only

unleash all his abilities as a warrior to fight Shang, he

good, but that was

was how much Shang

Shang's main opponent. The two of them were simply perfect

Another month passed.

you get that?" the clerk in the Hunting Guild

it,"

looked at Shang with

had just delivered the corpse of an Initial

made a breakthrough in one of his aspects recently, and it had increased his power by a lot, allowing him