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.

not be "appropriate" to feel bad about such

Shang just couldn't

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

looked at the

sound very

Mages had even more advantages than just their Mana

gulf regarding the baseline is so wide that technique

you can diminish a lot of their advantages with hard work, experience, and

I am only someone on the level of Duke Whirlwind

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

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

a cold gaze. "You don't know what

only listened to

he was only trying to appear more impressive to curb Shang's

the reward?" the Dean

the book in Shang's hand, but he didn't take

was Shang's reward,

book

something that will increase the Battle-Strength of all

will also help you

interested and extended his hand,

are supposed to do," Shang said as

hand didn't retreat immediately,

him?" the Dean asked with a

nodded. "We had a… talk. You could

wasn't very happy that I abused

the God, and he

that Shang could have very likely died

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

the God in over a century, which made the God

Shang had talked to the God again put newfound respect

was not allowed to forget that there was someone watching their every move and that someone could end their existence with

the Dean pulled the book back and skimmed through

also had a warrior's body, but his mind was still on the level of a True Mage, which granted him incredible

reading through the entire book and internalized all its

closed the book and put it into

Silence.

looked at the