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.

the eight months

as powerful as the body of a Peak General Stage beast,

Shang could beat a beast on his level with bare hands as long as he didn't fight like a complete idiot. Even more, nearly every warrior could achieve the same. The Procedure was open to them, and the Dean would probably very

of four to kill a beast on their level, and the

warrior could easily kill one beast

also didn't have any issues

way was

85% is the maximum I can achieve without Abominations,' Shang

strengthening Spells again in the basement of the black castle. However, he didn't pay much attention. He was

expression. "I need to analyze this

body finally healing after the avalanche of Spells had

Researcher Veral kept focusing on the sheets of paper in

no idea that this was the last

a day

Nothing special was happening.

castle, the Mages no longer even looking at him. They had become used

Shang walked towards the north, onto a

a hill was a

hill for about a hundred

wasn't a natural cave, but one Shang had dug for himself. He said that he was digging this cave so that

anything about

of the cave, Shang sat down and put Sword on

he focused on his

moved the Mana in his body around and focused on

first time, Shang used his Domain

with Vice-Commander Wilbury, Shang hadn't had any opportunity to use his Domain

now, he needed it to advance to the Commander

It was finally time.

sound represented the walls and

a significant drain on his Mana, but he also saw that his body was digging further into the hill without even moving. Everything around him simply turned

Shang's Mana began to flow smoothly throughout his body

out to supplement the usage of Shang's