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.

wouldn't have to wait with nothing

with

delivered the Spells to Shang and gave him a couple of

a General Stage warrior, Shang's mind was also slowly growing. By now, his mind had

Apprentice Realm wasn't impressive, but it was still a

left, Shang looked through the

imaginable. It was almost

to simply gather Fire Mana from

hadn't yet

if Shang had the same abilities as people with

down and

he was also doing this

Magic abilities would never reach the power of his physical abilities, but there

100%

power was 0% magical and 100%

magic warrior's power was 40%

warrior's body, he planned on making his power 10% magical and

from one's mind, but in comparison to a Mage, if Shang's Mana in his mind ran out, he wasn't helpless. Because of that, even though his Mana reserves for his mind were

how Astor used his Affinity to move to the

in one Mana Step to move to the side, it

he could probably avoid an additional

obviously pitiful when compared to Adepts, but this one Mana Step could make

Mana Step, Shang had

Duke Whirlwind's extremely easy Spells came at just the right

moment, Shang saw another path

The Adepts were overwhelming him, even though he was nearly perfect at fighting

so much

his power, and one

and when Viera returned to get him to return to battle,

was

had so many things to practice that there wasn't enough time in the

General Stage warriors didn't need

the Mana also changed their minds to process information

to

his

was still quite a bit off from using an actual

dealing with Mana Push

Elemental Spell,

was certain that these

managed to confidently deplete 80% of his opponents' Mana reserves

Only a bit more!

days later, Shang was

Only a bit more!

was the last

Shang became shocked.

The last one?

month had already

to win even once," he said

"Are you surprised?"

as he heard a

the Dean, stood at

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

at Viera. "You can

she

at Shang. "You're really impressive, Shang! In just one month, you became one of the best students our academy has ever had when it comes to fighting

even win against

Viera only smiled brightly.

turned to the Dean. "Can I tell

an eyebrow

said excitedly. "You've not been fighting Initial Adepts

a second,