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"

Shang just couldn't

He wanted more.

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

at

sound very

Mages had even more advantages

moment, the gulf regarding the baseline is so wide that technique won't be able to change anything, but if that gulf can be closed just

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

am only someone on the level of Duke Whirlwind or any other

if I were on their level, I would be able

advantages are the only reasons why I can't directly just kill

my accomplishments lightly, Shang," the Dean said with a cold gaze. "You don't know what it

listened to his

sure if his teacher told the truth or if he

reward?"

noticed the book in Shang's

all, this was Shang's reward,

book

Battle-Strength of all

also help you a

interested and extended his hand, waiting for Shang to hand the

supposed to do," Shang said as he put the book in the

immediately, and his

met him?" the Dean asked with a glint in his

talk. You could call it a

that I abused the rules,"

the God, and he knew how unstable he

that Shang could have very likely

wanted to take a look at it, and if it were useful, he would practice it. Then, he would probably teach the more talented

a century, which made

Shang had talked to the God again

to forget that there was someone watching their every move and that

the book back

body, but his mind was still on the level of a True Mage, which granted him

reading through

the book and put it into his

Silence.

looked at the wall as he fell