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 time, and it essentially doesn't exist anymore.

way to inherit knowledge from the long-forgotten era," the dean explained. "However, as

of that, he made the inheritance a contest. You will fight more and more powerful enemies on your level until you eventually die. After that, you will be resurrected, and

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

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 more powerful for the next test in the Commander Stage. That allows you to get a better score and get

"Battle-Strength?" Shang asked.

are compared to others at the same level,"

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

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

the power of my procedure, which will allow you to get better inheritances. You will have an advantage

wasn't sure how he should react right

react at all and simply

finish the topic. "However, this is

you referring to?" the dean asked with

the God said I should stay in the wilderness for two years," Shang repeated. "But what if my Battle-Strength

dean's eyebrows furrowed, and he looked at

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

I have only been in the wilderness for a bit more

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 event?"

the dean's eyes

he looked at Shang

something. "Did you think of something?"

he scratched his chin in thought. "It would also make sense to a certain degree. If I hadn't seen your current Affinity in action before, I wouldn't have connected

more specific?" Shang

"This involves one of the top secrets of the world. Technically, I am not even allowed to know of it, and the only

wouldn't be afraid of telling you. After all, in the worst case, I can just flee and live in the wilderness. That

don't want to endanger my friend. Because of that,

quite frustrated, but he

dean has talked about using everyone for his own power, but now,

looked pretty convincing earlier, but

with him, but when you manage to become friends,

can't just assume his entire personality based on only this conversation. It's very possible that he also

the end, I should still keep my

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

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

should take place in a bit less than two years. I never cared about the corpses of these beasts, but

the same Affinity as the warrior undergoing the procedure, the procedure has a higher chance of success

Affinity will probably be unlocked by the corpse since it will act similarly to a Mana Source, and you will receive something

to wait