Sword God in a World of Magic

More days passed, and although Shang became better and better, he still didn't win even once.

Shang had come across another problem.

A lot of his opponents were now using Mana Push.

Mana Push was a common Element-neutral defensive Spell. It created something like a force field around one of the Adept's arms, which extended outward by quite a bit.

Mana Push was the very technique Duke Whirlwind used to deal with the Exploding Mountain Turtle's attacks. He had created a huge forcefield and used it to bat the stones of the Exploding Mountain Turtle away like they were pebbles.

Of course, the Mana Push of these Adepts was nowhere near as overwhelmingly powerful as Duke Whirlwind's, but it was still troublesome.

Using Mana Push didn't waste as much Mana as receiving a hit to one's Mana Shield. However, it was harder to utilize since the Adept actually had to anticipate Shang's movements somewhat.

If they messed up their Mana Push, they would have wasted their Mana in using Mana Push while also receiving an attack to their Mana Shield.

Since Shang's opponents were now using Mana Push, Shang's progress was thrown back.

By now, Shang could barely waste 60% of his opponent's Mana.

However, Shang wasn't stupid, and he had realized something.

His initial opponents had been very clumsy, and they hadn't used Mana Push.

But now, his opponents were using Mana Push confidently.

This meant that Shang's opponents had been upgraded.

He was no longer fighting the trash portion of the Adepts but the average ones.

When Shang had just fought against his first few opponents, he had only managed to use up around 50% of their Mana, and these opponents had been the worst Adepts.

Now, he managed to waste 60% of the Mana of average Adepts.

Shang had made progress!

Several more days passed, and Shang learned to deal with Mana Push better.

There were three levels to dealing with Mana Push.

First level: Somewhat avoiding it and quickly charging towards the Adept's new location after they used Mana Step.

Second level: Avoiding Mana Push with a lot of confidence and making the Adept use even more Mana by forcing them to use a Mana Step with all their power.

Third level: Nullifying Mana Push and hitting the opponent's Mana Shield before they vanished with Mana Step.

After five days, Shang managed to confidently reach the first level. By now, he wasn't thrown to the ground anymore by being hit by Mana Push.

After several more days, Shang managed to reach the second level a couple of times, but before he could continue, he had to take a break.

17 days had already passed, which meant that the academy's auction would take place now.

Viera left to deal with several things. After all, she had been down here for over two weeks.

Shang retreated to his room and sat down.

One would think that Shang wanted to relax after 17 days of constant battle, but that was far from the truth.

Shang saw his own progress, and he became addicted to it.

More power!

He wanted more power!

He was making so much progress!

Shang wanted to continue fighting right now, but he had to wait until the room became free again.

Shang wouldn't have to wait

room with several

delivered the Spells to Shang and gave him a couple of tips on how

becoming a General Stage warrior, Shang's mind was also slowly growing.

Initial Apprentice Realm wasn't impressive, but it

looked through the list of

Spells imaginable. It was almost like they weren't Spells but training

simply gather Fire Mana from

and Ice Mana, but he hadn't yet been able to absorb these kinds of Mana from the

wanted to test if Shang had the same

sat down and concentrated on these

but he was also doing this

reach the power of his physical abilities, but

100% magical and 0%

warrior's power was 0% magical

magic warrior's power was 40% magical

warrior's body, he planned on making his power

if Shang's Mana in his mind ran out, he wasn't helpless. Because of that, even though his

used his Affinity to move to the side to change the angle

Step to move

one Mana Step, he could probably avoid

Adepts, but this one Mana Step could make the

learn Mana Step, Shang had to become familiar with Spell

Duke Whirlwind's extremely easy Spells came at just

moment, Shang saw another path

approaching the limit of his techniques. The Adepts were

was only so much

upgrade some part of his power, and one of

Mattheo had delivered him, and when Viera returned to get him to return to

casting, and he was absolutely sure by now that

to practice that there wasn't enough time in

General Stage warriors didn't need

entire being, and the Mana also changed their minds

returned to his

some progress in his Spell casting, his

was still quite a bit off from

dealing with Mana Push and learning all the different

opponents were using more than one Elemental

certain that these

deplete 80% of his opponents' Mana

Only a bit more!

days later, Shang was so

Only a bit more!

that was the

Shang became shocked.

The last one?

month

didn't manage to win even once," he

"Are you surprised?"

around as he

Dean, stood at the

Viera asked with the voice of a pleading child. "I want to

looked at Viera. "You

as she excitedly clapped her

looked at Shang. "You're really impressive, Shang! In just one month, you became one of the best

snorted. "One of the best? I didn't even win

Viera only smiled brightly.

she turned to the Dean. "Can I tell

raised an eyebrow while the

excitedly. "You've not been

second,