Sword God in a World of Magic

"The attack has the power of a Spell from a Peak Adept," the Dean said.

Shang nodded. That was about what he had expected. Sacrificing a bit of General Stage ore to unleash an attack at the Commander Stage would have been too good to be true.

Yes, it definitely wasn't even nearly as strong as when Shang used Entropy himself, but the cost was far more manageable.

Using Entropy himself would cripple Shang permanently, while this attack only cost a bit of ore.

On top of that, a Peak Adept could release terrifying power, enough to severely injure a Peak General Stage beast.

All of this sounded great, but there was one issue.

"The attack doesn't become faster," Shang said as he scratched his chin.

The Dean nodded. "You need to hit your opponent with it. "

The speed was a big issue. Theoretically, Shang could seriously injure a Peak General Stage beast, which was three levels above him, but in practice, Shang wouldn't be able to injure a Peak General Stage beast at all.

Beasts had terrifying instincts, and they would feel the danger coming from Shang's attack.

With their incredible speed, they would easily be able to avoid the attack just by jumping back.

'However, the attack still gives me a chance to win against a Late General Stage beast,' Shang thought.

'If I had that ability during the trial, I could have killed that porcupine. It wasn't as fast and was focused on defense. I should have been able to hit it.'

At that moment, Shang remembered something else.

Hadn't he had that thought once before?

Wait, could he…?

At that moment, Shang furrowed his brows, and after a while, he smirked.

'It should work.'

'It seems like my power has increased yet again!'

At that moment, something appeared in the Dean's hands, and Shang looked at it.

was a small, green

will undo the effects of

the pill, and

body began to ripple like it was water, and his body began to

effect of the pill ended,

now had a lean and athletic body. His earlier one was way too bulky, and Shang wasn't a big fan of that look,

had

had completely returned to

eyes were black, and he was clean-shaven. On his

Shang's clothing. He still wore this annoying green uniform, but there was no way around

Shang now looked like a mixture of his

nimble, but he also wasn't huge and

perfectly

good of both

You still somewhat resemble your old self, but no

small booklet appeared in the Dean's hand, and he

and noticed that it was a list of teachers. Beside every name was a time

is for our General Stage students," the Dean explained. "There aren't that many of you, which makes the creation of a lesson pointless. Additionally, you all focus on

of them only have

there were some overlaps, but those weren't

remembered that he had seen some teachers sitting on a couple of benches during the

teachers were simply taking a break, but apparently,

long do I have, approximately?"

complete by then. After that, I need you for maybe

nodded. "No problem. So, until then, I can simply do

a secret until then. It would be best if you avoided fighting or hunting with any other students during that time, and if you have to, try to act like your body is weaker

wait for you to become more familiar with your Mana and your Affinity before he sends you the next set of Spells. You might have finished testing out all the initial Spells, but there is a lot more he wants to know. Of

don't know what your Affinity is, and

Shang nodded.

teacher

that Shang didn't trust his teacher. If his

the problem was the Dean's

the Duke about

the Duke might also not do anything crazy with it, but what if

if it reached

knew something about Shang's Affinity that the

if this posed a