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."

probably only counted as a child or trash, but there is no evidence left from that time, and it essentially doesn't exist

knowledge from the long-forgotten era," the dean explained. "However, as you might have guessed, the God

contest. You will fight more and more powerful enemies on your level until

frowned when he heard that. Yes, that sounded exactly like something the God

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 more powerful for the next test

"Battle-Strength?" Shang asked.

at the same level," the dean

If it does, you will

enough, you might actually go all the way. After all,

change. "In a way, I envy you. You will receive the power of my procedure, which will

wasn't sure how he

not to react at all and simply

for your teachings," Shang said to quickly finish the topic. "However, this is not

were you referring to?" the dean asked with a bit

said I should stay in the wilderness for two years," Shang

eyebrows furrowed, and he looked

able to use my Affinity if I'm lucky. That means that

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

that something will happen in the next one and a half years that could unlock my Affinity? Something like a rare or strange beast appearing? Maybe some kind of

dean's

at Shang

that the dean had realized something.

to a certain degree. If I hadn't seen your current Affinity in action before, I wouldn't have connected it

more specific?"

world. Technically, I am not even allowed

in the worst case, I can just flee and live in the wilderness.

don't want to endanger my friend. Because of

that, he became quite frustrated, but he also

everyone for his own power, but now, he

so. He looked pretty convincing earlier,

it's difficult to become close with him, but when you manage to become friends, he might be very

personality based on only this conversation. It's very

end, I should still keep

can't tell me, but can you at least tell me when it's about to happen?" Shang

"There is a 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

two years. I never cared about the corpses of

there is a beast that has the same Affinity as the warrior

by the corpse since it will act similarly to a Mana Source, and you

to wait