Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang nodded. He had waited for this examination for way too long.

Soran answered with a nod of his own and turned towards Mervin. "Mervin, you're the sword instructor. Could you get us a fitting opponent for Shang? You know how examinations work."

Mervin nodded and wanted to stand up but stopped. "Shang? That's his name?" he asked.

"That's at least what he wrote onto the form," Soran said as he waved one of the forms around.

Mervin shot a weird glance at Shang.

"Weird name, kid," he said before leaving.

Viera only snorted, showing that she didn't like what Mervin had just said.

Soran only awkwardly looked at Shang. "You have to excuse Mervin. He's an old but very capable teacher. As you might have noticed, he always speaks his mind."

"No, he's right," Shang said. "Shang is a weird name."

Soran's face transformed into a representation of confusion.

That was not the answer he had expected.

"Well, alright then. As long as you don't take what Mervin said personally," Soran said.

"How is it not personal?" Shang asked. "He literally commented on my name. It doesn't really get any more personal."

Soran moved his hands forward like he wanted to stop an expensive vase from falling to the ground. "That's not what I meant."

"I know what you meant," Shang said.

Soran pulled back again as he looked at Shang with a slightly frustrated expression. "Then why didn't you say so?" he asked with forced politeness.

"Why didn't you word it correctly?" Shang answered.

"You," Soran said as his hands very lightly indicated that he wanted to strangle Shang. Then, he took a deep breath to calm down. "Fine. It's fine. The situation's resolved," he said.

Shang didn't answer anymore.

On the side, Viera shot a strange look at Shang.

This kid wasn't like most other kids.

Was something wrong with him?

time passed, Mervin returned

looked at the young man, or more precisely,

be older than

he felt a

threat he felt meant that the other

wasn't a real

Pest Cat had the

looked at

the Vice-Dean were

had to prove his worth in front

decide if you can join our academy or not. It's simply there so we can

over there," Soran said as he

table's

over to one end of the hall as he looked

focused on a mixture of speed and power. It wasn't as thin as a rapier, but it also

Clk!

heard from Shang, but none of the present people could see what Shang was doing.

they saw that. Keeping one's weapon hidden made it harder for the opponent to prepare

whenever you

BANG!

a lot of power reverberated throughout

hadn't been ready for Shang to suddenly attack, and he

from which direction Shang would

still hidden behind his

to a chop. In the academy, he had learned that

but he had already known that would

opponent knew more about how to wield a sword than him. So, entering a sword

power into

BANG!

swords hit each other,

SHING!

Shang had blocked a chop coming from above, but instead of pulling his sword back

opponent put all of his power into recovering his

blown back since he had

took a lot of practice, but Shang had had

was out of balance as he tried to pull

BANG!

his opponent's torso, taking the

of him. Then, Shang moved around his opponent's body with

CRK!

"AAAHHH!"