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."

that, Vice-Dean Ranos

of days later, Shang followed the red uniforms of the Preparation

saw the

It was a massacre.

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

more and more pronounced the

dealing with Mages only managed to win

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

the Mages won nearly every fight, none of the fights were easy.

Shang watched the students fight, he realized the most important

and delight, these things were identical to what one needed to

Speed, adaptability, and flexibility.

be a threat to

the multitude of Spells the Mages

flexibility was important to dodge the

things were important against beasts

that, most of

Mages. Luckily, his fighting

this day, Shang joined the red uniforms every weak to watch

uniforms also warmed up to Shang

were normal people that

a Mage had done something to them in

simply feared the oppressive

to fight against the most

Everyone had different reasons.

Another month passed.

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

pleasantly surprised when he saw Mattheo,

lot about battle and Mages

the first time, Shang could feel Mattheo's

great, but he wasn't at

a Mage, Mattheo was

stood in front of Mattheo, he

standing in front of

politely. "You've made terrifying progress,

how to answer

an

We've never fought before," Mattheo

took a

Mattheo was terrifyingly powerful, but as a warrior, Shang could fight

two of

Who won?

Mattheo.

he had won only

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

good, but that was not the

was how much Shang had

opponent. The two of them were simply perfect for

Another month passed.

the

it,"

clerk only looked at Shang with suspicion, but

had just delivered the corpse of an Initial

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