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.

to wait with

with several Spells made by

delivered the Spells to Shang and gave him a couple of tips

mind was also slowly growing. By now, his mind had

but it was still a step

Mattheo left, Shang looked through the list

the easiest Spells imaginable. It was

simply gather Fire Mana from

lifeless Fire and Ice Mana, but he hadn't yet been able to absorb

had the same

and

Whirlwind, but he

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

100% magical

warrior's power was 0% magical

power was 40% magical and

he planned on making his power

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

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

in one Mana Step to move to the side, it

one Mana Step, he could probably avoid an additional

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

learn Mana Step, Shang had

Duke Whirlwind's extremely easy Spells came at just the

moment, Shang

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

only so much technique

and one of these methods was to learn

the Spells Mattheo had delivered him, and when Viera returned to get him to return

Spell casting, and he was absolutely sure by now

so many things to practice that there

General Stage warriors didn't

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

returned to his

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

was still quite a bit off from using

next few days, Shang practiced dealing with Mana Push and learning all the different Spells his

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

that these Adepts weren't

deplete 80% of his opponents' Mana

Only a bit more!

was

Only a bit more!

that was the

Shang became shocked.

The last one?

entire month had already

to win even once," he said with

"Are you surprised?"

turned around as he heard a familiar

teacher, the Dean, stood at

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

looked at Viera.

as she

Shang. "You're really impressive, Shang! In just one month, you became one of the

I didn't even win against

Viera only smiled brightly.

Dean.

eyebrow while the

said excitedly. "You've not been

a second, Shang's