Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang opened his eyes deep in the night. Due to the Day of Chaos, Shang had decided to sleep again.

The last couple of days had already been a pain. The bloodied face had returned from time to time in the last couple of days. It wasn't nearly as bad as back then, but it was still very noticeable.

The last night had been horrible. Just like before, Shang felt his entire world break down as he tried to sleep. Everything had appeared hopeless and senseless.

But, eventually, Shang managed to go to sleep.

He wasn't sure what he had dreamt about, but he was pretty sure that he had dreamt of something bad.

Why?

Because Shang found spots of blood on his bed.

He guessed that he had probably scratched himself bloody during his sleep, and due to his high tolerance for pain, he didn't even wake up.

However, as a new day began, Shang felt much better.

Last night, he had felt horrible, which stood in stark contrast to how Shang felt right now.

He was alert and full of energy.

Shang stood up, showered, and shaved.

After getting dressed, Shang looked at his bed.

It was filled with dried blood, and it smelled quite badly.

He had done that.

'Moment of weakness,' Shang thought. 'I have to get used to the crueler side of the world. The more used I get to everything, the easier my life will become.'

Shang kept looking at the bloodstains.

To him, it felt like he was leaving his old self behind.

Shang dissociated from his past self last night.

"Well, doesn't matter. Let's go," Shang said to Sword.

Yes, that was the name of Shang's sword, Sword.

After they had trained a couple of times, Shang had found out that he didn't know Sword's name, which was why he had asked.

Sword simply said that it was a sword, and it wanted to be called as such.

Shang had asked why Sword didn't want a unique name.

Sword's answer was that its name would eventually be unique.

One day, if someone said the word sword, they would think of Sword.

It was not a sword.

It was the Sword!

end, Shang accepted that Sword wanted to be called Sword. He found it a bit weird to

walked out towards the courtyard of the academy. It was

There were about 50.

best of the best

The best hunters.

The best officers.

The best soldiers.

them were the best in theory regarding

them were the best when

were the best students in

was one

the 50

was nearly

uniforms in the academy, but nearly all of

Shang quickly realized

Vice-Dean had said that he had five spots and that he could only take five people

look at the Advanced Grade. What about

students from the Beginner Grade here, which was understandable. They were still too weak

were several students of the Intermediate, Late, and

he was the reason why there were 15 red

that moment, Shang realized

very rarely amongst other students. They rarely talk, and they rarely

are completely separate from

Caterpillar Class is already special since we can't learn the actual techniques of the school, but we still

now, they are the

noticed it previously, but as he saw

academy put special focus on the

they were

"Shang?"

who looked at him with

"Yes?" Shang asked.

doing here?"

took out the token he had received and showed it to Astor.

shock and confusion

It was real.

But how?

also knew very well

very young, but since he was so young, he was also far weaker than the

an emblem, one needed to

Astor liked Shang, but he also knew that Shang definitely wasn't among the

Battle-Strength was very weak, and he couldn't have been here long enough to learn everything was to know about the surroundings. That meant that he also couldn't have been chosen by

Shang was weak.

nothing about the

Shang

hidden progeny of a

was the son of the King

any exceptions for anyone unless the

True Mages were no

just as surprised as you,"