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

arrived at Shang's room with several Spells

gave him a couple

a General Stage warrior, Shang's mind was also slowly growing. By now, his mind had reached the Initial Apprentice

Realm wasn't impressive, but it was

Shang looked through the

It was

Shang to simply gather Fire Mana from

but he hadn't yet been able to absorb

wanted to test if Shang had the same abilities as people

down and concentrated on

was helping Duke Whirlwind, but he

the power of his physical abilities, but there surely were some Spells that could help Shang a

power was 100% magical and

0% magical and

warrior's power was 40% magical

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

that, even though his Mana reserves for his mind were pitifully small, he could attempt to gain a one-time boost per battle by

to move

all his Mana in one Mana Step

he could probably avoid

Step was obviously pitiful when compared to Adepts,

Shang had to become familiar with

extremely easy Spells came

that moment, Shang

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

so

of his power, and

had delivered him, and when Viera

had made quite some progress in his Spell casting, and he was

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

General Stage warriors didn't need to sleep

being, and the Mana also changed their minds to

returned to his

his Spell casting, his Battle-Strength hadn't been

bit off from

with Mana Push and learning all the different Spells his opponents

were using more than one Elemental Spell, and Shang saw

certain that these

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

Only a bit more!

days later, Shang was so close to

Only a bit more!

that was the last

Shang became shocked.

The last one?

entire month had

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

"Are you surprised?"

turned around as he

teacher, the Dean, stood at

voice of a pleading child. "I want to

Dean looked at

as she excitedly clapped her

In just one month, you became one of the best students our academy has ever had when it comes to

I didn't even win against an

Viera only smiled brightly.

turned to the Dean. "Can I tell him

an eyebrow while the

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

a second, Shang's