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 couldn't

He wanted more.

I had access to the procedure for myself, I would be able to fight

looked at the

didn't sound

had even more

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

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

on the level of Duke Whirlwind or

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

are the only reasons

lightly, Shang," the Dean said with a cold

listened to his teacher

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

reward?" the Dean

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

all, this was Shang's reward, not

the book and looked at

the Battle-Strength of all

will also help you a

Dean became interested and extended his hand, waiting for Shang to

are supposed to do," Shang said as he

didn't retreat immediately, and his eyes focused on

Dean asked with a glint

"We had a… talk. You

very happy that I abused the rules," Shang

and he knew how

knew very well that Shang could have very likely died

wanted to take a look at it, and

a century, which made the God almost appear surreal and

had talked to the God again put newfound

that there was someone watching their every

Dean pulled the

his mind was still on the

finished reading through the entire book

the book and put it into his internal

Silence.

the Dean only looked at the wall as