Sword God in a World of Magic

"That reminds me of something else I wanted to say," Shang said.

"What is it?" the dean asked with a neutral voice.

"You asked when I wanted to undergo the procedure, right?" Shang asked.

The dean nodded.

"Is it already fully developed?" he asked.

The dean nodded again.

"So, you wouldn't need any additional time to ready the procedure, right?" Shang asked.

"A day at most, maybe. It depends on what beast I choose," he said with annoyance. "Why are you asking such a pointless question?"

Shang nodded. "Then, it's not that," he said. "It's like this. My first of my available questions for the God has been about what I should do when I arrive here."

The dean's eyes shone a bit.

None of them had brought up the questions yet. After all, these questions could be valuable intel, and it was impossible to verify the information. Both of them could just lie.

"And he said what?" the dean asked. Obviously, Shang wanted to share the answer.

"He said that I should remain in the wilderness for two years before joining society again," Shang said.

The dean nodded. "That's the best course of action for you, and you will learn why when you join your class. This is especially important for you."

"Especially important for me? Why?" Shang asked.

"You have received your answers, and you have received your weapon. However, you have not yet come into contact with your second gift. I presume the God has given you the same thing as me," the dean said.

"What is the second gift?" Shang asked.

"It has two uses. The first use is storage. It's basically a superior Space Ring without the limitations," the dean explained. "The other use is inheritance."

"Inheritance? In what sense?" Shang asked.

"As you have heard, the golden age of the warriors is so far in the past that no one even knows that it has existed in the first place. No ruins from that era have survived until this day, as far as I am aware."

"This means that it is impossible to gain more advanced knowledge for the path of a warrior than I have access to unless you manage to create it yourself. So, for all intents and purposes, I essentially count as the strongest warrior that has ever existed."

it were back then, I would have probably only counted as a child or trash, but there is no evidence left from that

the God gave you a way to inherit knowledge from the long-forgotten era," the dean explained. "However, as you might have

contest. You will fight more and more powerful enemies on your level until you eventually die. After that, you

Yes, that sounded exactly like something the God would

inheritance you get is the most important thing contributing to your future success. If you manage to get a good one when you reach the General Stage, your Battle-Strength will be even

"Battle-Strength?" Shang asked.

compared to others at the same level," the dean added before continuing with

essence, the cycle can't be broken. If it does, you will

enough, you might actually go all the way. After all, an amazing inheritance

took a deep breath, but his expression didn't change. "In a way, I envy you. You will receive the power of my procedure, which will allow you to get better inheritances. You will have

he should react

decided not to react at all and simply continued

quickly finish the topic. "However, this is not what I

were you referring to?" the dean

said I should stay in the wilderness for two

he looked at his table. "Your

use my Affinity if I'm lucky. That means that unlocking my Affinity is probably very hard. Maybe it's something that can only

wilderness for a bit more than half a year, which is far

next one and a half years that could unlock my Affinity? Something like

the dean's eyes

he looked at Shang with an evaluating

the dean had realized something. "Did you

possibility," the dean said slowly as he scratched his chin in thought. "It would also make sense to a certain degree. If I

you be more specific?"

allowed to know of it, and the only reason I know

it only involved my life, I wouldn't be afraid of telling you. After all, in

want to endanger my friend. Because of that,

he became quite frustrated, but he

using everyone for his own power, but now, he is suddenly protecting his friend,' Shang thought. 'Has he

convincing earlier, but he also

when you manage to become friends, he might be

based on only this conversation. It's very possible that

should still keep my distance to some

if you can't tell me, but can you at least tell

certain event that takes place every couple of years. It involves some fighting and cleaning up of some rare and very troublesome beasts. No one in the world will realize that this has taken place since the ones that know it keep

I never cared about the corpses of these beasts, but if I put

the same Affinity as the warrior undergoing the procedure, the procedure has a higher

be unlocked by the corpse since it will act similarly to a Mana

to wait