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

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

then, Shang saw the students fight

It was a massacre.

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

grow more and more pronounced

that specialized in dealing with Mages only

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

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

students fight, he realized the most important

these things were identical to what one needed to fight against

Speed, adaptability, and flexibility.

had to close the distance to be

counter the multitude

flexibility was important

things were important

most of his nervousness

that he had to create another fighting style to fight Mages. Luckily, his fighting style against beasts was already

joined the red

warmed up

them were normal people that had something against

done something to them

simply feared the oppressive power

fight against

Everyone had different reasons.

Another month passed.

smile as he joined the Preparation Grade for the Caterpillar

when he saw Mattheo, but that

learned a lot about

time, Shang could feel Mattheo's true

a warrior, Mattheo was great, but he

a Mage, Mattheo was absolutely

stood in front of Mattheo,

like Shang was standing in

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

didn't know how to answer

was an

never fought before," Mattheo said with

a deep

was terrifyingly powerful, but as a

of them

Who won?

Mattheo.

he had

his abilities as a warrior to fight Shang,

quite good, but that

much Shang had

them were simply perfect for each other since their

Another month passed.

get that?" the clerk in the Hunting

hunted it," Shang said

Shang with suspicion, but

just delivered the corpse of an

had finally made a breakthrough in one of his aspects recently, and it had increased