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!

found it a bit weird to refer to a

walked out towards the courtyard of the academy. It was still dark, but Shang could already see

There were about 50.

represented the best of the best in

The best hunters.

The best officers.

The best soldiers.

of them were the best in theory regarding one of

were the best when it came to

the best students in

was one very surprising

50 students

nearly a

any red uniforms in the academy, but

Shang quickly realized

that he had five spots and that he could only take five

at the Advanced Grade. What about the

They were

of the Intermediate, Late, and

spots per grade, he was the

moment, Shang realized

uniforms are only very rarely amongst other students. They rarely talk, and they rarely visit other lessons.

completely separate from

can't learn the actual techniques of the school, but we still mingle with other students and share lessons. But the red

are the

noticed it previously, but as he saw so many red uniforms,

special focus on the red

like they were the

"Shang?"

who looked at

"Yes?" Shang asked.

doing

he had received and

looked with shock and

It was real.

But how?

liked Shang, but he also knew very well

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

to get an emblem, one needed

also knew that Shang

long enough to learn everything was to know about the surroundings. That meant

Shang was weak.

basically nothing about the theoretical

did Shang manage to get

actually some hidden

of the King of the Skythunder

for anyone unless the other side could

True Mages were no

was just as surprised as you,"