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

later, Shang followed the red uniforms of the

Shang saw the students fight

It was a massacre.

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

and more pronounced the more

specialized in dealing with Mages only managed

warriors. Instead, they were

of the fights were

the students fight, he realized the most important things

were identical to what one needed to fight

Speed, adaptability, and flexibility.

close the distance to be a

to counter the multitude of Spells the Mages

important to dodge the

things were important

that, most of his nervousness

to create another fighting style to fight Mages. Luckily, his fighting style against beasts was already perfect for fighting against

red uniforms every weak to watch

warmed up to Shang and actually talked

were normal people that

a Mage had done something to them in the

they simply feared the oppressive power

against the most powerful humans in the

Everyone had different reasons.

Another month passed.

a polite smile as he joined the Preparation Grade for

been pleasantly surprised when he saw Mattheo, but that

had learned a lot about battle and

time, Shang could feel Mattheo's true

Mattheo was great, but

Mage, Mattheo was absolutely

Shang stood in front of Mattheo, he

was standing in front of someone

and only smiled politely. "You've made terrifying progress, Shang,"

how

an

fought before," Mattheo said with

took a

Mattheo was terrifyingly powerful, but as a warrior, Shang

of

Who won?

Mattheo.

had won only

abilities as

was quite good, but that was

how much Shang had grown in

this 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.

get that?" the clerk

hunted it," Shang

looked at Shang with suspicion,

the corpse of an Initial General

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