Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang's next opponent was an Earth Adept, and he obviously also had nearly no combat experience.

Just like Shang's first opponent, this one also made several rookie mistakes, and Shang managed to use up a lot of Mana of his opponent by hitting his Mana Shield a couple of times.

But, eventually, Shang's opponent managed to prepare several devastating attacks, which were released in rapid succession. This time, Shang's opponent had summoned several Earth Spires that shot out of the ground.

Due to Shang's reflexes, he had been able to evade the first one, but it hadn't been easy. Shang had to abandon all his balance to barely evade the Earth Spire.

Since the Adept only needed a single thought to unleash his remaining spells, he released the next two in rapid succession, and Shang hadn't been able to avoid those.

Shang had lost.

The Adept bowed politely to Viera and threw Shang a look. Then, with a snort, he left without saying anything.

Shang's next opponent was a Metal Adept.

When the Metal Adept used Mana Step, Shang decided not to use his sword but to jump into the way of the Mana Step to grapple with the Adept.

However, the Mana Shield threw Shang away, and he quickly lost after that.

These Adepts were faster than Shang while using Mana Step, which surprised him quite a bit. Sure, Mana Step was fast, but this fast?

The next opponent was a Fire Adept.

Fire Adepts basically didn't exist in the Mage Academy, but Shang's opponents didn't only come from the Mage Academy. A lot of his opponents were Adepts that gave up trying to become True Mages or were ones that simply didn't have the talent or discipline to become one.

In short, those were Adepts that would forever remain Adepts. They basically counted to the worst Adepts in existence.

And yet, even though they all had horrible fighting experience, by simply following some simple rules, they always won against Shang.

As a warrior, Shang had to constantly adapt to his opponent and make quick decisions, but a Mage didn't fight that way.

A Mage followed rules.

They followed protocol.

They followed a path.

They followed a sequence.

They followed a plan.

nothing more than following a

way they could lose was if they didn't use

following a step-by-step guide, they

correctly. However, if the huge man simply focused on resisting the strikes and barreling

and power advantage, and if he managed to throw the other one to the ground and land on top of him, the huge man would only need to use his raw power

Technique didn't matter.

there were weight classes in

and bigger was an

same thing was true for Mages when

greater

Shield took care of that. As

Mage wouldn't even let their

felt the power difference very

of fighting, Shang

pretty good at anticipating where his opponents would go while using Mana Step, and he managed to hit their Mana

which often gave

in the end, Shang would always succumb to the rapid barrage of

Adepts and deal more damage to them, but after a full day, he realized that

path was a dead

Shang concentrated on being able to dodge his

that moment, Shang realized once again that fighting Mages was

thing was to dodge their devastating attacks. Their attacks had far more power behind them than the attacks of other warriors, which basically made it impossible for a warrior to

fought Mages. Blocking their Spells was basically impossible,

the difference between Mages and beasts was the frequency of

attack at a time, but a Mage could unleash several in

Shang focused on increasing his ability to evade the spells. It was fine as long as he was

point, his opponent would need to prepare several more Spells

where Shang's experience in