Shang''s next opponent was an Earth Adept, and he obviously also had nearly nobat experience.


    Just like Shang''s first opponent, this one also made several rookie mistakes, and Shang managed to


    use up a lot of Mana of his opponent by hitting his Mana Shield a couple of times.


    But, eventually, Shang''s opponent managed to prepare several devastating attacks, which were


    released in rapid session. This time, Shang''s opponent had summoned several Earth Spires that


    shot out of the ground.


    Due to Shang''s reflexes, he had been able to evade the first one, but it hadn''t been easy. Shang had to


    abandon all his bnce to barely evade the Earth Spire.


    Since the Adept only needed a single thought to unleash his remaining spells, he released the next two


    in rapid session, and Shang hadn''t been able to avoid those.


    Shang had lost.


    The Adept bowed politely to Viera and threw Shang a look. Then, with a snort, he left without saying


    anything.


    Shang''s next opponent was a Metal Adept.


    When the Metal Adept used Mana Step, Shang decided not to use his sword but to jump into the way


    of the Mana Step to grapple with the Adept.


    However, the Mana Shield threw Shang away, and he quickly lost after that.


    These Adepts were faster than Shang while using Mana Step, which surprised him quite a bit. Sure,


    Mana Step was fast, but this fast?


    The next opponent was a Fire Adept.


    Fire Adepts basically didn''t exist in the Mage Academy, but Shang''s opponents didn''t onlye from


    the Mage Academy. A lot of his opponents were Adepts that gave up trying to be True Mages or


    were ones that simply didn''t have the talent or discipline to be one.


    In short, those were Adepts that would forever remain Adepts. They basically counted to the worst


    Adepts in existence.


    And yet, even though they all had horrible fighting experience, by simply following some simple rules,


    they always won against Shang.


    As a warrior, Shang had to constantly adapt to his opponent and make quick decisions, but a Mage


    didn''t fight that way.


    A Mage followed rules.


    They followed protocol.


    They followed a path.


    They followed a sequence.


    They followed a n.


    Fighting against warriors for them was nothing more than following a step-by-step guide.


    Mages were superior to warriors in Battle-Strength, and the only way they could lose was if they didn''t


    use their powers correctly.


    But by following a step-by-step guide, they used them perfectly.


    A huge man could lose against a far smaller man in hand-to-handbat if he made many mistakes


    and didn''t use his powers correctly. However, if the huge man simply focused on resisting the strikes


    and barreling over his opponent, the huge man would almost always win.


    The huge man had the weight and power advantage, and if he managed to throw the other one to the


    ground andnd on top of him, the huge man would only need to use his raw power to win.


    Technique didn''t matter.


    That was exactly why there were weight sses inbat sports on Earth.


    Being heavier and bigger was an unreasonable advantage.


    The same thing was true for Mages when they fought against warriors in this world.


    Their powers were unreasonably greater than their opponent''s powers.


    They would need to take several hits while going through the procedure, but their Mana Shield took


    care of that. As long as they could resist their opponent''s attacks until they were ready to unleash their


    own power, the Mages would win.


    Of course, this only counted for the inexperienced Mages. An experienced Mage wouldn''t even let their


    opponents hit them while thoroughly crushing their opponent.


    And Shang felt the power difference very clearly.


    After a full day of fighting, Shang hadn''t won even a single time.


    He had be pretty good at anticipating where his opponents would go while using Mana Step, and


    he managed to hit their Mana Shield several times.


    Shang had also be far faster in following his opponent, which often gave him an additional


    opportunity to hit their Mana Shield.


    But in the end, Shang would always sumb to the rapid barrage of Spells after the Adept was done


    preparing.


    Shang tried to increase his ability to intercept the Adepts and deal more damage to them, but after a


    full day, he realized that there wasn''t much else he could do.


    This path was a dead end.


    So, Shang concentrated on being able to dodge his opponent''s barrage of spells.


    At that moment, Shang realized once again that fighting Mages was somewhat simr to fighting


    beasts.


    When fighting beasts, the most important thing was to dodge their devastating attacks. Their attacks


    had far more power behind them than the attacks of other warriors, which basically made it impossible


    for a warrior to block them. One always had to evade these attacks.


    The same thing was true when one fought Mages. Blocking their Spells was basically impossible, and


    one always needed to evade them.


    However, the difference between Mages and beasts was the frequency of these devastating attacks.


    A beast could only unleash one devastating attack at a time, but a Mage could unleash several in just a


    single second.


    In the end, Shang focused on increasing his ability to evade the spells. It was fine as long as he was


    only hit once since his uniform would cancel that hit.


    At that point, his opponent would need to prepare several more Spells again since Shang could evade


    the Spell if it were only one.


    And that was where Shang''s experience in fighting against beasts came into y.


    It was not normal for a warrior to be able to confidently evade a Mage''s Spell.


    In fact, it was very rare.


    Nearly all warriors only managed to evade a Spell with a lot of luck, but Shang could do it consistently.


    This was the basis of Shang''s power, and it had given him a solid starting point.


    Now, he only had to advance in that department!


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    After two days, Shang managed to evade one Spell consistently and a second Spell about every


    second attempt.


    After the third day, Shang pushed that frequency to 75%.


    After the fourth day, it became 90%.


    After the fifth day, it became 95%.


    By now, Shang had managed to deplete a lot more of his opponents'' Mana, but he still hadn''t won even


    once.


    But he was making progress!


    By now, nearly all of Shang''s opponents had to use over 70% of their Mana.


    After the tenth day, Shang managed to evade two Spells confidently, but that was when it became far


    harder again to advance.


    Shang had to use all his power to evade the second Spell, making it impossible for him to evade the


    third.


    If an Adept prepared three Spells, Shang would be hit by one, and the Adept would need to prepare


    another three.


    If an Adept prepared four Spells, Shang would lose immediately.


    But in both cases, Shang managed to push his opponent to waste about 80% of their Mana.


    Just a bit more! As long as he managed to exhaust all their Mana, he would win!