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 with

arrived at Shang's room with several Spells

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

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

Initial Apprentice Realm wasn't impressive, but

Mattheo left, Shang looked through the list of

easiest Spells imaginable. It was almost

to simply gather Fire Mana from the

could absorb lifeless Fire and Ice Mana, but he hadn't yet been able to absorb

if Shang had the same abilities

and concentrated on

helping Duke Whirlwind, but he was also doing this for

but there

Mage's power was 100% magical and

warrior's power was 0% magical

warrior's power was 40% magical and 60%

on making his power 10% magical and

wasn't helpless. Because of that, even though his Mana reserves for his mind were pitifully small, he could attempt to gain a one-time boost per battle by completely using up all the Mana

his Affinity to move to

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

one Mana Step, he could

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

learn Mana Step, Shang had to become familiar with

Spells

that moment, Shang saw another path

approaching the limit of his techniques. The Adepts were overwhelming him, even though he was nearly perfect at fighting

was only so much technique could

and one

had delivered him, and when Viera returned to

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

to practice that there wasn't enough time in the

General Stage warriors didn't need to sleep

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

returned to

even though he had made some progress in his Spell casting, his Battle-Strength hadn't been

bit off from using an actual

next few days, Shang practiced dealing with Mana Push and learning all

than one Elemental Spell, and Shang saw

that these Adepts weren't

confidently deplete 80% of

Only a bit more!

days later, Shang was so

Only a bit more!

the last one!" Viera

Shang became shocked.

The last one?

month had already

"I didn't manage to win

"Are you surprised?"

around as he heard a familiar

teacher, the Dean,

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

at Viera. "You

she excitedly

In just one month, you became one of the best students our academy has ever had when it comes to

the best? I didn't even win against

Viera only smiled brightly.

she turned to the Dean. "Can I tell him

eyebrow

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

a second, Shang's mind