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.

have to

with

Shang and gave him a couple

also slowly

Apprentice Realm wasn't impressive, but it was still a

looked

imaginable. It was almost

simply gather Fire Mana

he hadn't yet

Duke Whirlwind wanted to test if Shang had the same abilities as people with normal

sat down and concentrated on these

was helping Duke Whirlwind, but he was also

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

power was 100%

was 0% magical and 100%

warrior's power was 40%

on making his

Because of that, even though his Mana reserves for his mind were pitifully small, he could attempt

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

use all his Mana in one Mana Step to move to the side, it would

Mana Step, he could

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

learn Mana Step, Shang had to

Whirlwind's extremely easy Spells came

that moment, Shang saw another

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

so much technique

and one of these

and when Viera returned to get

casting, and he was absolutely sure by now that he could increase his power

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

Stage warriors didn't need to sleep

the Mana also changed their minds to process information

to his

had made some progress in his Spell casting, his Battle-Strength

bit off from

with Mana Push and

than one Elemental Spell, and

was certain that these

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

Only a bit more!

Shang was so close to

Only a bit more!

was the last

Shang became shocked.

The last one?

month

to

"Are you surprised?"

he

Dean, stood at the

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

Dean looked at

Viera said as she

one month, you became one

even win

Viera only smiled brightly.

Dean.

raised an eyebrow

Viera said excitedly. "You've not been fighting Initial

a second, Shang's mind