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."

"Of course, there is a way to

looked at Soran. "The warrior

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 powerful enough to train in the more complex Element

to the Warrior's Academy. From what I've heard while compiling his file, it was his father that taught him nearly

he was really good at it," Soran

looked at

the very first day, Simon was fighting for first place in

Shang nodded.

That truly was impressive.

his drive. It was like he no longer cared about being in first place, which resulted

of years later, Simon was still very strong, but he wasn't even in the top 5

he only very rarely went hunting, and he earned most of his Contribution Points by stealing resources from

Other students learn how to protect themselves from thieves. You would much rather learn

of 'teacher' that

was pretty successful in his

was until he ran into you,"

out Simon's file again and pointed at a place on the first page that was about halfway

told you was only in the first half of the first page," Soran said, "and the reason why this file is so long is entirely

Shang

happened after

pushed the file away again and looked

of minutes. Our Water Mage is

basically impossible for anyone to have a

he would talk very fast,

panic as soon as another human

leaned his head on one of his fists as his

he tried to get Simon acclimated

one month later, Simon was

two things were