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

Shang's room with

gave him a couple of tips on how to

slowly growing. By now, his

impressive, but it

Mattheo left, Shang looked through the list

was

required Shang to simply gather Fire Mana from

Ice Mana, but he hadn't yet been able

if Shang had the same abilities as people with normal

and

but he was also

Magic abilities would never reach the power of his physical abilities, but there surely were some Spells that

power was 100% magical and 0%

warrior's power was 0% magical and 100%

was 40%

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

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 pitifully small, he could attempt to gain a one-time boost per battle by completely using up

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

one Mana Step to move to the side, it would already help

Mana Step, he could probably

Step was obviously pitiful when compared to Adepts,

Mana Step, Shang had to become familiar with Spell

Spells came at just the

that moment, Shang

quickly approaching the limit of his techniques. The Adepts were overwhelming him, even though he

was only so much technique could

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

Viera returned to get him to return to battle, Shang

he was absolutely sure by now that he could increase his

practice that there wasn't enough time in

Stage warriors didn't

their entire being, and the Mana also changed their minds to process information

to his

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

a bit off

Mana Push and learning all

one Elemental Spell,

that these Adepts

days, Shang managed to confidently deplete 80%

Only a bit more!

Shang was so close

Only a bit more!

the last one!"

Shang became shocked.

The last one?

month had already

manage to win even

"Are you surprised?"

as he heard a familiar

Dean, stood

of a

Dean looked at Viera.

as she excitedly

Shang! In just one month, you became one of the best students our academy has ever

"One of the best? I didn't even win against an average Adept even

Viera only smiled brightly.

Dean. "Can I

eyebrow while

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

a second, Shang's