Sword God in a World of Magic

"Simon Wilbury, sole son of Baroness Wilbury and Major Wilbury," Soran said.

'If his mother is a baroness, it means that she's a True Mage,' Shang thought with furrowed brows. 'Military titles are normally only given to warriors, and, as far as I know, a major is also usually at the Commander Stage.'

'They would definitely have the funds to commission a Cleaner.'

"Can you tell me more?" Shang asked.

"As the sole heir, Simon Wilbury was supposed to become a True Mage and lead the Wilbury household," Soran said.

"However, he was born without an Affinity."

"Without an Affinity?" Shang asked with raised eyebrows.

Being born without an Affinity was possible, but it was rare.

Soran nodded. "Being born without an Affinity makes it very difficult to become a Mage. While it is possible to train in Element Neutral Magic, these kinds of Spells only become prevalent near the very top of the Adept Realm. Even if someone wants to specialize in Element Neutral Magic, they would still need to gain experience with some Elements."

"If someone wants to purely advance on the path of Magic, they need to master the manipulation of Mana. Something like that requires practice."

"But since the Element Neutral Spells are either extremely easy, like Mana Shield or Mana Step, or extremely hard, like Mind Read and Mana Force, it is very difficult for someone to become a True Mage by only relying on Element Neutral Spells."

"Getting started isn't an issue. Becoming a True Mage after becoming a Peak Adept isn't an issue."

"But everything between is an issue."

"Imagine you are building a very big and complex contraption, but you only know what parts you need and how to create the most complex part of the contraption."

"You have all the parts, and you have the core, but you don't know how to build everything."

"That's the situation these kinds of people are in."

back in his chair. "Of course, there is a way to

at Soran. "The warrior

and as long as you don't have a warrior's body, the strengthening also

reach the Early Commander Stage. At that point, his mind should have become

Warrior's Academy. From what I've heard while compiling his file, it was his father that taught him nearly everything Simon knew about

really good at

only looked

first

Shang nodded.

That truly was impressive.

to an even more talented warrior, Simon lost all his drive. It was like

strong, but he wasn't even in the top 5

that he only very rarely went hunting, and he earned most of his

help them in the future when they need resources. Other students learn how to protect themselves from thieves. You would much rather learn this lesson by only losing a couple of days' worth of

'teacher' that taught how to protect

was pretty successful

until he ran

took out Simon's file again and pointed at a place on the first

page," Soran said, "and the reason why this file is so long is entirely related to the changes in Simon's

the file, Shang

after

away again and looked at

been healed in a matter of minutes. Our Water Mage

impossible for anyone to

he appeared normal, but whenever he talked to anyone, he would talk very fast, stumble over his words, and his voice

he fell into a minor panic as

of his fists as his eyes looked at the file lying

of Simon, and he tried to get

worked. Just one month later,

things were