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 with

room with several Spells made by

delivered the Spells to Shang and gave him a couple

also slowly growing. By now, his mind had

impressive, but it was still a step

Shang looked through the list

was almost like they weren't Spells but

Spell required Shang to simply gather Fire Mana from

Mana, but he hadn't yet been

if Shang had the same abilities as people with normal

down and

he

reach the power of his physical abilities, but there surely were some Spells that

Mage's power was 100% magical

0% magical and

power was 40% magical and

he planned on making his power 10% magical and

even though his Mana reserves for his mind were pitifully small, he could attempt to gain a

how Astor used his Affinity to move

his Mana in one Mana Step

one Mana Step, he could probably avoid

obviously pitiful when compared to Adepts,

learn Mana Step, Shang had to

Spells came

that moment, Shang saw

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

only so much technique

upgrade some part of his power, and

day practicing the Spells Mattheo had delivered him, and when Viera

had made quite some progress in his Spell casting, and he was absolutely sure by now that he could increase his

things to practice that there

General Stage warriors didn't need to sleep

Mana also changed their minds

returned to

made some progress in his Spell casting, his Battle-Strength hadn't been increased by

was still quite a bit

with Mana Push and

his opponents were using more than one Elemental Spell, and Shang saw

that these Adepts

deplete 80% of his opponents' Mana reserves

Only a bit more!

Shang was so

Only a bit more!

that was the last

Shang became shocked.

The last one?

month had already

his teeth. "I didn't manage to win even once," he said with

"Are you surprised?"

as he heard a

Dean, stood at

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

at Viera. "You

said as she excitedly clapped

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

"One of the best? I didn't even

Viera only smiled brightly.

she turned to the Dean. "Can I tell him

an eyebrow while

excitedly. "You've not been

second,