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 wait with nothing to

at Shang's room with several Spells

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

slowly growing. By now, his mind had

but

looked through the list

imaginable. It was almost

simply

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

wanted to test if Shang had the same abilities as people

and concentrated on these

Duke Whirlwind, but he was also doing

would never reach the power of his physical abilities, but

was 100% magical

0% magical and 100%

power was 40%

Shang's warrior's body, he planned on making

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

Astor used his Affinity to move to the side

Mana Step to move to the side, it would

Mana Step, he could probably

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

had to become familiar with

extremely easy Spells came at just

that moment, Shang

techniques. The Adepts were overwhelming him, even though he

was only so much technique could

of his power, and one of

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

Spell casting, and he was absolutely sure by

practice that there wasn't enough time in

least General Stage warriors

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

to

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

was still quite a bit off from

with Mana Push and

using more than one Elemental Spell, and Shang

was certain that these Adepts weren't

managed to confidently deplete 80% of

Only a bit more!

Shang was so close to

Only a bit more!

that was the last

Shang became shocked.

The last one?

entire month had already

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

"Are you surprised?"

turned around as he heard a familiar

teacher, the Dean,

with the voice of a

Dean looked at

Viera said as she

month, you became one of the best students our

even win against

Viera only smiled brightly.

turned to the Dean. "Can I

eyebrow

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

second, Shang's