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 Grade to the Mage's Academy north

then, Shang saw the

It was a massacre.

control over their Affinities had spiked to a ridiculous degree.

would only grow more and more

Mages only managed to win one out of every five

the Apprentices didn't ridicule the warriors.

none of the fights were easy. The fights

fight, he realized the most important things when it came to fighting against

were identical

Speed, adaptability, and flexibility.

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

important to counter the multitude

flexibility was important to

of these things were

realized that, most

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

day, Shang joined the red

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

people that had

something to them

feared the oppressive

fight against the most powerful humans

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

surprised when he saw Mattheo, but that was quickly replaced by

had learned a lot about battle and

time, Shang could

a warrior, Mattheo was great,

as a Mage, Mattheo was

Shang stood in front of

was like Shang was standing in front of someone

smiled politely. "You've made terrifying

how to answer

an absolute

never fought before," Mattheo said with a

a

but as

of

Who won?

Mattheo.

had won

Mattheo saw that he needed to unleash all his abilities as

current power was quite good, but that was not the

much Shang had grown in

opponent. The two of them were simply perfect for each other since their power was about

Another month passed.

the clerk in the Hunting

it," Shang said

Shang with suspicion,

had just delivered the corpse

and it had increased his power by a lot, allowing him