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

only way they could lose was if they didn't use their

a step-by-step guide, they used them

far smaller man in hand-to-hand combat if he made many mistakes and didn't use his powers correctly. However, if the huge man simply focused on resisting the strikes and barreling over his

the weight and power advantage, and if he managed to throw the other one to the ground

Technique didn't matter.

were weight classes

and bigger

same thing was true for Mages when they fought against warriors

powers were unreasonably greater

need to take several hits while going through the procedure, but their Mana Shield took care of that. As long as they

for the inexperienced Mages. An experienced Mage wouldn't

felt the power difference very

full day of fighting, Shang hadn't won

go while using Mana Step, and

also become far faster in following his opponent, which often gave him

always succumb to the rapid barrage of Spells after the Adept was done

his ability to intercept the Adepts and deal more damage to them, but after a full day, he realized that there

was a

being able to dodge his opponent's

again that fighting Mages was

had far more power behind them than the attacks of other warriors, which basically made it impossible for a warrior

Mages. Blocking their Spells was basically

Mages and beasts was

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

end, Shang focused on increasing his ability to evade the spells. It was fine as long as he was only hit once since his uniform

prepare several more Spells again

in fighting against