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 wait

room with several

and gave him a couple of tips on how

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

wasn't impressive, but

looked through the list of

was almost like they weren't

Shang to simply gather

but he hadn't yet been able

to test if Shang had the same abilities as

and concentrated on

helping Duke Whirlwind, but he was

abilities, but there surely were some Spells that could help

power was 100% magical and 0%

0% magical and

warrior's power was

warrior's body, he planned on making his power 10%

though his Mana reserves for his mind were

how Astor used his Affinity to move

in one Mana Step

he could probably avoid

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

Mana Step, Shang had to

extremely easy Spells

that moment, Shang saw another path

Adepts were overwhelming him, even

was only so much

power, and

Viera returned to get him to

progress in his Spell casting, and he was absolutely sure by

practice that there wasn't enough time

Stage warriors didn't

Mana also changed their minds to process information

returned to his

progress in his Spell casting, his Battle-Strength

a bit off from

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

now, his opponents were using more than one Elemental Spell, and Shang saw new Spells every single

certain that these Adepts

to confidently deplete 80% of his opponents'

Only a bit more!

Shang was so close

Only a bit more!

was the last

Shang became shocked.

The last one?

entire month had

didn't manage to win even once," he said

"Are you surprised?"

he heard a

teacher, the Dean, stood

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

at Viera. "You

as she excitedly clapped

at Shang. "You're really impressive, Shang! In just one month, you became one of

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

Viera only smiled brightly.

the Dean. "Can I tell him

an eyebrow while the Dean

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

a second, Shang's mind