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 nothing to

room with several Spells made by

to Shang and gave him a

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

impressive, but it was still

Shang looked through the

the easiest Spells imaginable. It was almost like

simply gather Fire Mana from

could absorb lifeless Fire and Ice Mana, but he hadn't yet

if Shang had the same abilities as people with normal

sat down and concentrated on

was helping Duke Whirlwind, but he

abilities, but there surely were some

100%

0% magical

power was

on making his

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

move to the side to change the

Mana Step

Mana Step, he could probably avoid an additional

compared to Adepts, but this one Mana Step could

Step, Shang had to

Whirlwind's extremely easy Spells came at

moment, Shang saw another

quickly approaching the limit of his techniques. The Adepts were overwhelming

was only so much

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

when Viera returned to get him to return to

casting, and he was absolutely sure by now that

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

General Stage warriors

Mana also changed their minds to process information while being

returned to

had made some progress in his Spell

was still quite a bit off from using an

practiced dealing with Mana Push and learning all the different Spells

his opponents were using more than one Elemental Spell, and

that these

ten days, Shang managed to confidently deplete 80% of his opponents'

Only a bit more!

later, Shang was so close to

Only a bit more!

that was the last one!"

Shang became shocked.

The last one?

entire month

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

"Are you surprised?"

as he heard a

the Dean, stood at the

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

looked at Viera. "You can

Viera said as she

really impressive, Shang! In just one month, you became one of the best

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

Viera only smiled brightly.

the Dean. "Can

an eyebrow

not been

second,