Sword God in a World of Magic

Over the next two months, Shang taught the barbarians quite a bit about fighting in a group to please the Mages. As long as he was in their good graces, nobody would suspect his loyalty.

With Shang's power, it wasn't difficult to gain the respect of all the barbarians.

Just as promised, Shang received one fire beast heart every two weeks, giving him enough resources to increase his power by a lot.

The beast Mana was difficult to deal with, but the Procedure allowed Shang to absorb even more Mana than normal. For the remaining Mana, Shang had to actively drive it out of his body, which took a lot of effort.

However, he still managed to clean himself of the beast Mana just before he got the next heart.

Two months after arriving in the Plague Rat Zone, Researcher Veral began to experiment on Shang. He didn't perform surgeries or anything on him, but he kept testing Shang's threshold regarding strengthening Magic.

Having several strengthening Spells cast on one put a lot of pressure and pain on one's body, and it wasn't any different for Shang. It was normal for his body to bleed or for one or more of his bones to break.

Whenever that happened, Researcher Veral looked with interest at Shang's broken body and made some notes. Obviously, he didn't care even the slightest bit about Shang's health.

Even worse, he was constantly encouraging and complimenting Shang while he was in pain to get him to stay loyal. It was almost like Researcher Veral wanted Shang to get Stockholm Syndrome.

'If you already see me as worthless trash, at least be honest,' Shang thought with annoyance as more Spells were put on his body.

The next couple of months were not pleasant at all. Shang bled on a daily basis, and Researcher Veral got more and more interesting ideas to strengthen Shang.

At some point, he even got the idea to carve Magic Circles into Shang's flesh. Of course, he had to test it immediately after getting the idea.

The constant healing of Shang's body became a problem to Researcher Veral, which was why he designed the Magic Circles to constantly burn into Shang's body.

After a couple of weeks of pain and testing, Researcher Veral realized that this didn't really work, and he got rid of the Magic Circles.

Shang had an incredible tolerance to pain, but even he had problems with those weeks.

'I only have to hold out for a couple more months,' he thought.

His body had already become a lot stronger. He guessed that his body was about 75% as powerful as the body of an equal beast.

Shang kept going through more and more torture in the name of science, but with every passing day, it became easier.

that, the eight months Shang needed eventually

now, Shang's body was about 85% as powerful as the body of a Peak General Stage

like a complete idiot. Even more, nearly every warrior could achieve the same. The Procedure

fight in groups of four to kill

the Procedure and the strengthening technique, they would have absolutely no issues with fighting beasts. One warrior could easily kill one beast on their level, and the fight wouldn't even be difficult. Beasts

Mages also didn't have any issues

was

limit. I guess 85% is the maximum I

again in the basement of the black castle. However,

today," Researcher Veral said with a thoughtful expression. "I need to analyze this data. Come back tomorrow

his body finally healing after the avalanche of Spells had stopped. "Yes, sir," Shang

kept focusing on the

had no idea that this was the last time he

was a day

Nothing special was happening.

him. They had become used to Shang constantly walking around the castle. He

towards the north,

middle of a hill was a cave,

cave continued going down into the hill for about a hundred

wasn't a natural cave, but one Shang had dug for himself. He said

thought anything about

Shang sat

focused on his

body around and

time, Shang used his Domain while

hadn't had any opportunity to use his Domain of

needed it to advance to the Commander

It was finally time.

the sounds of moving sand. This sound represented the walls and ground of the cave

his body was

his body while slowly thinning, but

of Shang's Mana.