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

with several Spells made

to Shang and gave him a couple of tips on

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

wasn't impressive, but it was still a

looked through the

Spells imaginable. It was almost like they weren't

Shang to simply gather Fire Mana from the

yet been able to absorb these kinds

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

and concentrated on these

Duke Whirlwind, but he was also doing this for

would never reach the power of his physical abilities, but there surely

power was 100% magical and 0%

0% magical

magic warrior's power was 40% magical and 60%

planned on making his power 10% magical and 90%

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

of how Astor used his Affinity to move

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

Mana Step, he could probably avoid an additional

Adepts, but

had to

extremely easy Spells came at just the right

moment, Shang saw another path

his techniques. The Adepts were overwhelming

so much technique could

to upgrade some part of his power, and one

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

he was absolutely sure by now that

that

warriors didn't need

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

to

his

a bit off from using

dealing with Mana Push and

one Elemental Spell, and Shang saw new Spells every

certain that

deplete 80% of his opponents'

Only a bit more!

days later, Shang was so

Only a bit more!

that was the last one!"

Shang became shocked.

The last one?

month had already

didn't manage to win

"Are you surprised?"

turned around as he heard a

Dean, stood

asked with the voice of a pleading child.

at Viera.

said as she excitedly clapped her

really impressive, Shang! In just one month, you became one

I didn't even win against an average Adept

Viera only smiled brightly.

she turned to the Dean. "Can I tell him

an eyebrow

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

a second, Shang's mind