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.

it might not be "appropriate" to

Shang just

He wanted more.

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

at the

didn't sound very

more advantages than

regarding the baseline is so wide that technique won't

the High Mages have even more advantages, you can diminish a lot of their advantages with hard

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

to the procedure, and if I were on their level, I

reasons why I can't directly just kill

the Dean said with a cold gaze. "You don't

to

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

the reward?" the

already noticed the book in Shang's

all, this was

lifted the book and looked

is something that will increase the Battle-Strength of all

also help

hand, waiting for Shang to hand the book

supposed to do," Shang said as

retreat immediately,

the Dean asked with a

"We had a… talk. You could call it

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

the God, and he knew how unstable he

that Shang could have very likely

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

a century, which made the God almost appear surreal

the God again put newfound

to forget that there was someone watching their every move and

the Dean pulled the

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

reading through the entire book and

and

Silence.

Dean only looked at the wall as he