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

the red uniforms of the Preparation Grade to the Mage's Academy north of the northeastern Wild

the

It was a massacre.

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

and more pronounced the more powerful

dealing with Mages only managed to win one

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

the Mages won nearly every fight, none of the fights

the students fight, he realized the most important

things were identical to what one needed to fight against

Speed, adaptability, and flexibility.

distance to be a threat to a Mage, which made speed

was important to counter the multitude of Spells the

flexibility was important

of these things were important

that, most of his nervousness

create another fighting style to fight Mages.

Shang joined the red uniforms every

a while, the red uniforms also warmed up to Shang and actually talked to

were normal people that

had done something to them

feared the oppressive power of the

against the most powerful humans in the

Everyone had different reasons.

Another month passed.

smile as he joined the Preparation Grade for the Caterpillar

been pleasantly surprised when he saw Mattheo,

lot

first time, Shang could feel Mattheo's true

Mattheo was great,

a Mage, Mattheo was

stood in front of Mattheo,

in front of someone

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

didn't know how to answer

an

never fought before," Mattheo said with a

a

powerful, but as a

two of them

Who won?

Mattheo.

had

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

good, but

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

Another month passed.

the clerk in the Hunting Guild

hunted it," Shang said

at Shang with suspicion, but he paid

just delivered the corpse

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