Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang slowly opened his eyes in the real world.

Shang was inside his room in the academy's basement, which wasn't very pleasant to look at. There was only a table, some chairs, and a bed. That was about it. It looked more like a fancy prison cell than an actual room.

The Dean noticed that Shang was back and looked at him.

"How did it go?" he asked.

Shang looked at his teacher.

"22 points."

The Dean nodded. "That's better than I expected. I feared that the weak Middle General Stage beast would be too much for you, and I also expected you to fail your fight against the Average Early Adept."

"It seems I underestimated you."

"I assume you used your peculiar Ability to gain three free points?"

Shang nodded, but his brows furrowed.

At this moment, the procedure and its effects went through Shang's head.

The procedure had upgraded his body by one level, which essentially granted him three additional points per category, giving him nine free points.

Then, his Affinity gave him three additional free points.

So, the procedure and his Affinity had given Shang twelve points in total.

Shang had left the trial with 22 points, and if he subtracted the twelve free points, he would be at ten points.

In short, without these two things, Shang's Battle-Strength was about as powerful as the Dean's Battle-Strength had been back then.

"You seem to be unhappy with your results," the Dean said as he noticed Shang's expression.

"The only reason why I got so many points was the procedure and my Affinity," Shang said. "Without them, I would have only gotten as many points as you, and several of those fights had been incredibly close."

The Dean's expression didn't change.

"So, you are disappointed that you only are as strong as the strongest and most talented warrior in the world," the Dean said.

Shang listened to his teacher, but he didn't look at him.

knew that it might not be "appropriate" to feel bad

Shang just couldn't help

He wanted more.

the procedure for myself, I would be able to fight the strongest High Mages on

at

sound

had even more

and our battle experience. At the moment, the gulf regarding the baseline is so wide that technique won't be able to

even more advantages, you can diminish a lot of their advantages with hard work, experience,

the level of Duke Whirlwind or

to the procedure, and if I were on

only reasons why I can't

said with a cold gaze. "You don't know what it means to

listened to

if his teacher told the truth or if he was only trying to appear more impressive to

reward?" the Dean

already noticed the book in Shang's hand, but he didn't take

all, this was

lifted the book and

Battle-Strength of all General Stage warriors and

also help

Dean became interested and extended his hand, waiting for

you are supposed to do," Shang said

didn't retreat immediately, and his eyes

met him?" the Dean asked

"We had a… talk. You

wasn't very happy that I abused the rules," Shang

had met the God, and he knew how unstable he

well that Shang could have very likely died

what to do with the reward. Originally, he only wanted to take a look at it, and if it were

century, which made

had talked to the God again put newfound

there was someone watching their every move and that someone could

the Dean pulled the

still on the level of a True Mage, which granted him incredible

Dean finished reading through the entire book and internalized all its

book and put

Silence.

looked at