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

with several Spells made by Duke

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

mind was also slowly growing. By now, his mind had

impressive, but it was still

left, Shang looked through the list

was almost like they weren't Spells but

simply gather Fire Mana

Fire and Ice Mana, but he hadn't yet

Duke Whirlwind wanted to test if Shang had the same abilities

down and

was helping Duke Whirlwind, but he was also doing

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

was 100%

was 0%

power was 40% magical and 60%

warrior's body, he planned on making his power

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

how Astor used his Affinity to move to the

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

Step, he could probably

to Adepts, but this one Mana Step

to learn Mana Step, Shang had to become familiar

Whirlwind's extremely easy Spells

Shang saw another path

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

only so much technique

his power, and one

had delivered him, and when Viera returned to get him to return to battle, Shang almost didn't want to

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

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

Stage warriors didn't

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

to his

he had made some progress in his Spell casting,

was still quite a bit off from

practiced dealing with Mana Push and learning all the different Spells his

one Elemental Spell, and Shang saw

certain that these Adepts weren't

ten days, Shang managed to confidently deplete 80%

Only a bit more!

days later, Shang was so close to

Only a bit more!

was the

Shang became shocked.

The last one?

entire month had

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

"Are you surprised?"

around as he heard a

teacher, the Dean, stood

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

at Viera.

Viera said as she excitedly clapped

just one month, you became one of

didn't even win against

Viera only smiled brightly.

Dean. "Can

eyebrow while the Dean

"You've not been fighting Initial

second, Shang's