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

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

saw the students fight each

It was a massacre.

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

only grow more and more

that specialized in dealing with Mages only managed to win one out of every

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

though the Mages won nearly every fight, none of the

realized the most important things when it came to fighting

surprise and delight, these things were identical to what one needed to fight against

Speed, adaptability, and flexibility.

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

important to counter the multitude of Spells the Mages

flexibility was important to

of these things were important against

realized that, most of his nervousness

feared that he had to create another fighting style to fight Mages.

day, Shang joined the red uniforms every

uniforms also warmed up to Shang and

were normal people that had something

something to

the oppressive

against the

Everyone had different reasons.

Another month passed.

polite smile

had been pleasantly surprised when he saw Mattheo, but that was quickly

had learned a lot about

for the first time, Shang

warrior, Mattheo was great, but he

as a Mage, Mattheo was absolutely

in front of

was like Shang was standing in front of

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

know how

was an absolute

fought before," Mattheo said

took a

terrifyingly powerful, but as

of them

Who won?

Mattheo.

he had won only

all his abilities

quite good, but that was not

impressive part was how much Shang had grown

Mattheo became Shang's main opponent. The two of them were simply perfect for each other since

Another month passed.

that?" the clerk in the

hunted it," Shang said

Shang with suspicion, but he paid the

delivered the corpse

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