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."

that, Vice-Dean Ranos

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

saw the students fight

It was a massacre.

already received their Pure Mana Sources, which meant that their control over their Affinities had spiked to a ridiculous degree. At

grow more and

only managed to

ridicule the warriors. Instead, they were rather impressed by

won nearly every fight, none of the fights were easy. The fights had always taken

he realized the most

were identical to

Speed, adaptability, and flexibility.

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

to counter the multitude

important

were important against beasts as

realized that, most

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

red

uniforms also warmed

were normal people that had something against

done something to them in

simply feared the oppressive

against the most powerful humans in

Everyone had different reasons.

Another month passed.

care of me," Mattheo said with a polite smile as he joined the Preparation Grade for the

surprised when he saw Mattheo, but that was quickly replaced by

learned a lot about battle and Mages in

for the first time, Shang could feel Mattheo's

Mattheo was great, but

as a Mage, Mattheo was

in front of Mattheo, he

in

politely. "You've made terrifying progress, Shang," he

how

an absolute

before," Mattheo

a deep

was terrifyingly powerful, but as a warrior, Shang could fight

of

Who won?

Mattheo.

he had won

all his abilities as a warrior to fight Shang,

good, but that was not

part was how much Shang had grown

day on, Mattheo became Shang's main opponent. The two of them were simply perfect for each other since their power was about

Another month passed.

did you get that?" the clerk in the

hunted it," Shang said

clerk only looked at Shang with suspicion, but he paid the money

the corpse

a breakthrough in one of his aspects recently, and it had increased his power by a lot, allowing him to kill his first General Stage