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

arrived at Shang's room with

and gave him a couple

Shang's mind was also slowly growing. By now, his mind

Realm wasn't impressive, but it

left, Shang looked through the list

It was almost like they weren't Spells

Shang to simply gather Fire

yet been

had the same abilities

sat down and concentrated on these

Duke Whirlwind, but he was also doing this for

abilities, but there surely were some Spells that could help Shang

Mage's power was 100% magical and 0%

power was 0% magical and 100%

magic warrior's power was

Shang's warrior's body, he planned on

ran out, he wasn't helpless. Because of that, even though his Mana reserves for his mind were pitifully

of how Astor used his Affinity to move to the side to change

Mana Step to move

Mana Step, he could

when compared to Adepts, but

Mana Step, Shang had

Spells

moment, Shang saw

limit of his techniques. The Adepts were overwhelming him, even though he was nearly perfect at

was only so much

to upgrade some part of his power, and one of these

Spells Mattheo had delivered him, and when Viera returned to get him to return to battle, Shang almost didn't want to

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

practice that there wasn't enough time in the

warriors didn't need

oxygen fueled their entire being, and the Mana also

to

though he had made some progress in his Spell casting, his

was still quite a bit off from using

days, Shang practiced dealing with Mana Push and learning all the different Spells his opponents were

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

certain that these Adepts weren't

deplete 80% of his

Only a bit more!

days later, Shang was so close to

Only a bit more!

the

Shang became shocked.

The last one?

month

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

"Are you surprised?"

as he heard a

teacher, the Dean, stood

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

Dean looked at Viera.

Viera said as 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

even win against an average Adept even one

Viera only smiled brightly.

to the Dean. "Can I tell

an eyebrow while the Dean

been fighting Initial Adepts but Early

a second, Shang's mind