Sword God in a World of Magic

As Shang put his hand on the table, he summoned the power inside him.

He felt the power steering, but then…

He stopped.

Just before his power activated, Shang had felt a feeling of doom.

His instincts told him that he shouldn't do that.

They told him that something horrible would happen if he used it.

It was like Shang was in front of a sleeping Commander Stage beast, and using his power was akin to poking it.

In short, Shang felt like he would be killed if he used it.

The Dean looked at Shang and noticed the subtle changes on his face.

After some seconds, Shang pulled his left arm back.

"The same as the weak Abominations?" the Dean asked.

The Dean had made a solid guess, and Shang confirmed it by nodding.

"So, in short, you are still too weak to make use of your actual Affinity," the Dean said.

Shang nodded. "I wanted to test it, but before I could, I felt a feeling of death approach. It told me that I would forever regret using it."

are the same. Nearly all of them died in battle, but a couple

"Too late?" Shang asked.

at once, and sometimes, the teams arrive too late. In the

"And no Abomination."

quickly realized what this meant. "You said that the weaker Abominations get weaker with every use of their power. Do

everything around them until they themselves don't exist anymore. They are essentially a star. Their fire destroys many things, but with every second they burn, they use up

from hydrogen into helium. In the process

looked at the Dean with

know such stuff?" he asked. This didn't sound like something a

that moment, Shang also realized how crazy it actually was that the Dean could come up with something like the procedure

Shang noticed that he actually didn't know anything

mind went to the

for choosing the Dean was so that he

person for

the Dean answered. "Physics wasn't my field, but you learn a lot about physics if nearly your entire social circle is

throw away a lot of my knowledge

said. "The weaker Abominations essentially burn up their own life to destroy everything around them. In a way, you could even say that they convert their mass into energy,

Shang. "Wait, how do you know about antimatter? You

predecessor the same thing," the Dean said. "Based on context clues, we came to the conclusion that barely a couple

Shang for a loop. "Just a couple

I guess the God finds the current period on Earth very suitable for creating the kinds of people he wants to send to this world, which is why the time is probably moving much slower on

to wrap his mind around these things, but

palace, he had basically

rules of physics were

of times slower was still a scary thought to