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.

be "appropriate" to feel bad

Shang just

He wanted more.

said. "If I had access to the procedure for myself, I would be able to fight the strongest High Mages on my

looked at

sound very

had even more advantages

techniques and our battle experience. At the 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 by a little bit, all the techniques become

diminish a lot of their advantages with hard work, experience,

only someone on the level

and if I were on their level, I would be able to fight evenly

the only reasons why I can't directly just kill

with a cold gaze.

listened to his teacher in

he was only trying to appear more impressive to curb

the reward?"

already noticed the book in Shang's hand, but

this was Shang's reward, not

lifted the book and looked at

will increase the Battle-Strength of all

will also help you

interested and extended his hand, waiting for Shang to

should know what you are supposed to do," Shang said as he put the

didn't retreat immediately, and his eyes focused on

asked with a

"We had a… talk. You could call

very happy that I abused the rules," Shang said

the God, and

Shang

it, and if it were useful,

God in over a century, which made the God almost appear surreal and

to the God again put

to forget that there was someone watching their every move and that someone could end their existence

Dean pulled the book back and skimmed through

still on the level of a

reading through the

Dean closed the book and

Silence.

at the wall