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.

wouldn't have to wait with

room with several

Shang and gave him a couple of tips

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

Apprentice Realm wasn't impressive, but it was still a step

looked through the list of

were the easiest Spells imaginable. It was almost like they

to simply gather Fire Mana from

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

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

down and

Duke Whirlwind, but he

Magic abilities would never reach the power of his physical abilities, but there surely were some Spells that

Mage's power was 100% magical

warrior's power was 0% magical and 100%

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

warrior's body, he planned on

if Shang's Mana in his mind ran out, he wasn't helpless. Because of that, even though his Mana reserves for his mind

reminded of how Astor used his Affinity to move to the

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

one Mana Step, he could

when compared to Adepts, but this one Mana Step

Mana Step, Shang had to become familiar with Spell

Whirlwind's extremely easy Spells came at just

that moment, Shang saw another path

Adepts were overwhelming him, even though he was nearly perfect at fighting

only so much

of his power, and one

and when Viera returned to get him to return to battle, Shang almost

his Spell casting, and he was absolutely sure by now

to practice that there wasn't

Stage warriors didn't need

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

to his

had made some progress in his Spell

quite a bit off from using an

dealing with Mana Push and learning all the different Spells his opponents were

using more than one Elemental Spell, and

certain that these Adepts weren't

ten days, Shang managed to confidently deplete 80%

Only a bit more!

days later, Shang was

Only a bit more!

that was the last one!" Viera

Shang became shocked.

The last one?

entire month

teeth. "I didn't manage to win even

"Are you surprised?"

turned around as he heard a

Dean, stood at the

with the voice of a

Dean looked at

Viera said as she

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

"One of the best? I didn't even win against an average Adept

Viera only smiled brightly.

she turned to the Dean.

raised an eyebrow

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

second, Shang's mind