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

the

then, Shang saw the students

It was a massacre.

over their Affinities had

more and more pronounced

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

the warriors. Instead, they were

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

he realized the most important things when it came to fighting

to Shang's surprise and delight, these things were

Speed, adaptability, and flexibility.

had to close the distance to be a threat to

to counter the multitude of Spells the Mages shot

flexibility was important to dodge the

things were

realized that, most of his nervousness left

fighting style to fight Mages. Luckily, his fighting style against beasts

this day, Shang joined the red uniforms

warmed up to Shang and

them were normal people that

a Mage had done something

simply feared the oppressive power

fight against the most powerful humans in

Everyone had different reasons.

Another month passed.

with a polite smile as he joined the Preparation Grade for

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

a lot

first time, Shang could feel

warrior, Mattheo was great, but he wasn't at the

a Mage, Mattheo was absolutely

front of Mattheo, he

in front of someone at the

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

didn't know how to

was an

before,"

took a

Mattheo was terrifyingly powerful, but as a warrior, Shang

two of them

Who won?

Mattheo.

he had won

needed to unleash all his abilities as a warrior to

current power was quite good, but

much Shang had grown in the past ten

The two of them were simply perfect

Another month passed.

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

hunted it," Shang

clerk only looked at Shang with suspicion, but he paid the money

just delivered the corpse

in one of his aspects recently, and it had increased his power by a lot,