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

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

saw the

It was a massacre.

Mana Sources, which meant that their control over their Affinities had spiked to a ridiculous degree. At that point,

and more

Mages only managed to win one out

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

none of the fights were easy.

the most important things when it came to fighting against

to Shang's surprise and delight, these things were identical to what one needed

Speed, adaptability, and flexibility.

to close the distance to be

was important to counter the multitude of Spells the Mages shot at

flexibility was important

were important against beasts

most of his nervousness left

style to fight Mages. Luckily, his fighting style against

the red uniforms every weak to

warmed

were normal people that

had done something to them in the

they simply feared the oppressive power of the

fight against the

Everyone had different reasons.

Another month passed.

Mattheo said with a polite smile as he joined the Preparation

he saw Mattheo, but that was quickly

a lot about battle

the first time, Shang could feel Mattheo's

a warrior, Mattheo was great, but he wasn't

Mage, Mattheo was absolutely

in front of Mattheo, he felt

in front

Shang's look and only smiled politely. "You've made terrifying

know how to answer

was an absolute

before," Mattheo said with

a

as a warrior, Shang could fight

two of

Who won?

Mattheo.

he had won

that he needed to unleash all his abilities as a warrior to fight Shang, he grew even

good, but that was not the

how much Shang had grown

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

Another month passed.

the clerk in

hunted it," Shang

with suspicion, but

just delivered the corpse of an Initial

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