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

Shang just

He wanted more.

this, 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

looked at

sound

even more

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

advantages, you can diminish a lot of their advantages with hard

think that I am only someone on the

to the procedure, and if I were on

additional advantages are the only reasons why I

Dean said with a cold gaze. "You don't know what it

only listened to his teacher in

truth or if he was only trying to appear more

reward?" the

book in

all, this was Shang's

the book and

will increase the Battle-Strength of

will also help you

hand, waiting for Shang to hand the

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

Dean's hand didn't retreat immediately, and his eyes focused on

the Dean asked with a

"We had a… talk. You could call it

happy that I

Dean had met the God, and he knew how unstable

well that Shang could have very likely died

much about what to do with the reward. Originally, he only wanted to take a look at it, and if it were useful, he would practice it. Then, he would probably teach the more talented students in the

century, which made the God

the God again

to forget that there was someone watching their every move and

some seconds, the Dean pulled the book back

on the level of a True Mage, which granted

two minutes, the Dean finished reading through the entire book

closed the book and put

Silence.

the Dean only looked at the