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.

Shang wouldn't have to wait with

with several

to Shang and gave him a couple of tips on how to

also slowly growing. By now,

impressive, but it was still

left, Shang looked through the list of

It was almost like they

Spell required Shang to simply gather Fire

Fire and Ice Mana, but he hadn't yet been able to absorb these kinds of Mana

test if Shang had the

down and concentrated on these

was helping Duke Whirlwind, but he

abilities, but there surely were

100% magical

was 0%

power was 40% magical

warrior's body, he planned on

used the Mana from one's mind, but in comparison 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

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

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

Mana Step, he could probably

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

Step, Shang had to

extremely easy Spells came at just the

that moment, Shang

the limit of his techniques. The Adepts were

only so much

upgrade some part of his power, and one of these methods

Viera returned to get him to

in his Spell casting, and he was absolutely

had so many things to practice that

Stage warriors didn't need to

Mana also changed

to his

had made some progress in his Spell casting,

bit off

Mana Push and learning all the different Spells his

one Elemental

was certain that these Adepts

confidently deplete 80% of his opponents'

Only a bit more!

later, Shang was so close

Only a bit more!

the last one!" Viera

Shang became shocked.

The last one?

entire month had

gritted his teeth. "I didn't manage to win even

"Are you surprised?"

turned around as he

Dean,

voice of a pleading child. "I want to hunt

at Viera. "You

said as she excitedly

one of the best students our

best? I didn't even win against an average Adept even one

Viera only smiled brightly.

to the Dean. "Can I tell him

raised an eyebrow while the

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

second, Shang's