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.

like that, the eight

the body of

fight like a complete idiot. Even more, nearly every warrior could achieve the same. The Procedure was open to them, and the Dean

to fight in groups of four to kill a beast on their

beasts. One warrior could easily kill one beast on their level, and

Mages. Mages also didn't have any issues with beasts on their

way was finally

its limit. I guess 85% is the maximum I can achieve without Abominations,' Shang

black castle. However, he didn't pay much attention. He was

with a thoughtful expression. "I need

Magic Circle, his body finally healing after

Veral kept focusing on the sheets of paper in front of

this was

day like any

Nothing special was happening.

at him. They had become used to

leaving the castle, Shang walked towards the

of a hill was a cave,

continued going down into the hill for

Shang had dug for himself. He said that he was digging this cave

anything

of the cave, Shang sat down and put

he focused

the Mana in his body around and focused

Shang used his Domain while

Vice-Commander Wilbury, Shang hadn't had

it to advance to the

It was finally time.

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

also saw that his body was digging further into the hill without even moving. Everything around him simply

Mana began to flow smoothly throughout his body while slowly thinning,

inside Shang's muscles began to be pulled out to supplement the usage of Shang's Mana. Under normal circumstances, the body wouldn't do that. After all, this would weaken