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

followed the red uniforms of the Preparation

Shang saw the students fight each

It was a massacre.

already received their Pure Mana Sources, which meant that their control over their Affinities

only grow more and more pronounced the

Mages only managed to win one out

the warriors. Instead, they were rather

the fights were easy. The fights had always taken a

he realized the most important

Shang's surprise and delight, these things were identical to what one needed

Speed, adaptability, and flexibility.

to close the distance to be a threat to a Mage, which

important to counter the multitude of Spells the Mages

flexibility was important to dodge

these things were

most of his nervousness left

style to fight Mages.

joined the red uniforms every weak

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

normal people that had something

had done something

they simply feared the oppressive

fight against the most

Everyone had different reasons.

Another month passed.

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

been pleasantly surprised when he saw Mattheo,

now, Shang had learned a lot about battle and Mages

first time, Shang could feel Mattheo's

was great, but he wasn't at

as a Mage, Mattheo

Shang stood in front of Mattheo,

standing in front of someone at the

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

know how to answer

an

We've never fought before," Mattheo said

a deep

but as a

of them

Who won?

Mattheo.

had won only

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

was quite good, but that was

how much Shang had grown in the past ten

Shang's main opponent. The two of them

Another month passed.

did you get that?" the clerk in the Hunting Guild

it," Shang

only looked at Shang with suspicion, but he paid the

delivered the corpse of an Initial General

his aspects recently, and it had increased his power