[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic":3,"chapter-sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-168":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Sword God in a World of Magic",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1492003,1940,"Chapter 168 Rise","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-168",168,"\u003Cp>During the first Day of Chaos, Shang had been under Yiral's protection the entire time. If Yiral hadn't been there, Shang would have died many times over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the second Day of Chaos, Shang managed to survive on his own. Well, at least as long as one ignored all the guards that dealt with all the beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>pᴀɴdᴀ nᴏveʟ Shang had learned even more during his second Day of Chaos, and he took a several-days-long break from his classes to work on his own fighting style.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang returned to class, but his Battle-Strength seemingly hadn't changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was because he was fighting humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When it came to beasts, Shang had become much more powerful over the last couple of days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A month passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Guess who's back!\" Astor shouted with a wide smile as he arrived at the Preparation Grade Caterpillar Class lesson.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Astor had reached the Peak Soldier Stage!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang only smirked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two of them quickly fought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang lost horribly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, Shang was slightly above-average in the Preparation Grade Caterpillar Class, while Astor was outstanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could already attempt to fight for the top spot in the Preparation Grade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the fight, Astor looked at Shang with shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Man, you've become really powerful!\" he said. \"It's hard to imagine that you have only been here for a bit more than half a year!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, Astor had won convincingly, but the fight hadn't been easy for him. He didn't need to unleash his Affinity, but he had to fight with everything else he had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time, Shang could see his actual progress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Astor was no longer a level weaker than Shang, but Shang had still managed to fight him for quite some time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this fight had been a one-time thing. Shang was still a bit too weak to teach Astor something right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of that, Shang had to fight someone else from the Preparation Grade while Astor fought the most powerful students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another month passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You will join the next practical lesson and watch from the side.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang looked with shock at the person that had suddenly spoken to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Vice-Dean Ranos!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vice-Dean Ranos had never spoken to Shang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes?\" Shang asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You should know enough about Mages by now, and the Dean needs you to prove your power against Mages in the future,\" Vice-Dean Ranos told Shang. \"The procedure is to close the gap between warriors and Mages, and winning against Mages is the best way to prove that the procedure works.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For now, you don't need to fight them. Simply watch the other students fight them and learn from their fights.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang only nodded. \"Alright. I also think it might be time for me to see how warriors and Mages fight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that, Vice-Dean Ranos left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A couple of days later, Shang followed the red uniforms of the Preparation Grade to the Mage's Academy north of the northeastern Wild Forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, Shang saw the students fight each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a massacre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Peak Apprentices had already received their Pure Mana Sources, which meant that their control over their Affinities had spiked to a ridiculous degree. At that point, the advantage of the Mages had already taken hold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it would only grow more and more pronounced the more powerful everyone got.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A class that specialized in dealing with Mages only managed to win one out of every five fights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the Apprentices didn't ridicule the warriors. Instead, they were rather impressed by them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though the Mages won nearly every fight, none of the fights were easy. The fights had always taken a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Shang watched the students fight, he realized the most important things when it came to fighting against Mages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And to Shang's surprise and delight, these things were identical to what one needed to fight against beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speed, adaptability, and flexibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A warrior had to close the distance to be a threat to a Mage, which made speed important.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adaptability was important to counter the multitude of Spells the Mages shot at them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And flexibility was important to dodge the Spells.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of these things were important against beasts as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Shang realized that, most of his nervousness left him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had feared that he had to create another fighting style to fight Mages. Luckily, his fighting style against beasts was already perfect for fighting against Mages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After this day, Shang joined the red uniforms every weak to watch their fights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a while, the red uniforms also warmed up to Shang and actually talked to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of them were normal people that had something against Mages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe a Mage had done something to them in the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe they simply feared the oppressive power of the Mages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe they only wanted to fight against the most powerful humans in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone had different reasons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another month passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please take care of me,\" Mattheo said with a polite smile as he joined the Preparation Grade for the Caterpillar Class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang had been pleasantly surprised when he saw Mattheo, but that was quickly replaced by deep shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, Shang had learned a lot about battle and Mages in particular.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And for the first time, Shang could feel Mattheo's true power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a warrior, Mattheo was great, but he wasn't at the peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as a Mage, Mattheo was absolutely terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Shang stood in front of Mattheo, he felt helpless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like Shang was standing in front of someone at the General Stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mattheo noticed Shang's look and only smiled politely. \"You've made terrifying progress, Shang,\" he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang didn't know how to answer that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mattheo was an absolute monster!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come! We've never fought before,\" Mattheo said with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang took a deep breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, Mattheo was terrifyingly powerful, but as a warrior, Shang could fight him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two of them fought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who won?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mattheo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he had won only barely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Mattheo saw that he needed to unleash all his abilities as a warrior to fight Shang, he grew even more impressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang's current power was quite good, but that was not the impressive part.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The impressive part was how much Shang had grown in the past ten months!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From this day on, Mattheo became Shang's main opponent. The two of them were simply perfect for each other since their power was about equal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another month passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where did you get that?\" the clerk in the Hunting Guild asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I hunted it,\" Shang said simply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clerk only looked at Shang with suspicion, but he paid the money anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang had just delivered the corpse of an Initial General Stage beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang had finally made a breakthrough in one of his aspects recently, and it had increased his power by a lot, allowing him to kill his first General Stage beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fight had been absolutely brutal, but Shang had won.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn't had any help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beast hadn't been injured before the fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had been a fair fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Shang had killed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the beast was only a General Stage Vanishing Snake, which meant that it was below average in power in a direct confrontation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, it was still a real General Stage beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another month passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I… lost?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Astor lay on the ground with widely opened eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Astor slowly lifted his head as he looked at Shang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How did you become so powerful?\" he asked in shock. \"How did you suddenly become so fast?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang only smirked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On this day, Shang became the strongest student in the Caterpillar Class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another month passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang had the ability to choose any of the three quotas he had received for the Day of Chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang was at the absolute top of his class in three lessons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Caterpillar Class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hunting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>General knowledge about Zones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang was now in the top 10% of students, including all classes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang hadn't learned any advanced Martial Arts, but he still managed to become more powerful than most other students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had worked so incredibly hard to achieve all of this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From absolute trash, he had ascended to become the absolute top.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang was no longer lacking in any field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, Shang was outstanding in every field!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, which quota did Shang choose for his third day of Chaos?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang wouldn't choose any of the quotas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today, he wouldn't watch others fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today, he would fight himself!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would defend the Farm Line from General Stage beasts!\u003C\u002Fp>",1420,"2026-06-06T04:07:02.167Z",1,"novelbin.me","28f3d042c468e1a04f5680f61af23270d8a0ffcfe319460aec6626e681333d73","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-169","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-167",1033,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-cover.jpg"]