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.

for them was nothing

to warriors in Battle-Strength, and the only way they could lose was if they didn't use their powers

step-by-step guide, they used

made many mistakes and didn't use his powers correctly.

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

Technique didn't matter.

there were weight classes in

and bigger was an unreasonable

true for Mages when they fought

unreasonably greater than

took care of that. As long as they could resist their opponent's attacks until they

counted for the inexperienced Mages. An experienced Mage wouldn't even let their

felt the power

of fighting, Shang

become pretty good at anticipating where his opponents would go while using

faster in following his opponent, which often gave him an additional opportunity to

would always succumb to the

them, but after a full day, he realized that there wasn't

path was a

on being able to dodge his opponent's barrage of

that moment, Shang realized once again that fighting Mages was somewhat similar

their devastating attacks. Their attacks had far more power behind them than the attacks of other warriors,

when one fought Mages. Blocking their Spells was basically impossible, and one always needed to evade

between Mages and beasts was the frequency

beast could only unleash one devastating attack at a time, but a Mage could unleash several in

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

more Spells again since Shang could evade the Spell

Shang's experience in