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 about

Shang just

He wanted more.

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

looked at the

didn't sound

the Mages had even more advantages than just

us warriors are our 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

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

only someone on the level

had access to the procedure, and if I were on their level, I would be

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

said with a cold gaze. "You don't

listened to his

the truth or if he was only

the reward?"

noticed the book in Shang's hand, but he

was Shang's reward, not

the book and looked

Battle-Strength

also help you a

extended his hand, waiting for Shang to hand

supposed to

hand didn't retreat immediately,

Dean asked with a glint in

"We had a… talk. You

that I abused

and

very well that Shang could have very likely died

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

the God in over a century, which made the God almost

had talked to the God

was someone watching their every move and that someone

pulled the book back and skimmed through

mind was still on the level of

minutes, the Dean finished reading through the entire book

the book and

Silence.

at the wall