Sword God in a World of Magic

After a couple more minutes of arguing, Shang finally got his answer.

According to teacher Loran's explanation, to advance in the Soldier Stage required the warrior to strengthen different parts of their body.

A normal human would reach the Initial Soldier Stage by simply becoming an adult. The natural presence of Mana in the surroundings strengthened their bodies naturally to a certain extent.

Because of that, even the most normal adult already had a body on the level of a professional athlete on Earth.

Of course, reaching the Initial Soldier Stage at the age of 18 was already way too late for someone that wanted to become a warrior. If someone wanted to become a warrior, they needed to reach the Initial Soldier Stage at the age of 14, at the latest.

The way of reaching the Initial Soldier Stage early was very simple.

Normal training.

Running around, lifting some stuff, climbing stuff, whatever. As long as the child was very physically active, they would reach it early.

When Shang asked if excessive training at such a young age could have negative effects on a child's development, everyone looked at him like he was a weirdo.

After some ridicule, Shang simply swallowed his frustration.

Shang couldn't be faulted for his question. After all, on Earth, excessive physical training at such a young age could cause issues with bone development. That was also why fitness centers often only accepted kids aged 14 and up.

But, apparently, in this world, it was no concern. Shang guessed that it was the Mana that allowed kids to train so much without any issues.

To reach the Early Soldier Stage, it was necessary to train one's skin and muscles. The training of the muscles was obvious, but the training of the skin was a bit weird in Shang's mind.

However, it also made sense. If the muscles bulged too much, the sudden expansion could tear the skin. One had to remember that people in this world were far more powerful than people on Earth. On Earth, the skin had enough time to deal with the expansion of mass since it didn't happen very quickly.

In this world, it was an issue.

On top of that, if the skin weren't properly trained, it wouldn't let much Mana through. In a way, the skin was a filter for Mana, and at the base level, the skin would block a lot of Mana from entering the body.

However, the more Mana the skin of someone had, the easier it was for the body to absorb Mana. That additional absorption was imperative to reach the later levels of the Soldier Stage.

Shang remembered that he had bled quite a lot in Duke Whirlwind's garden. That was also how he had trained his skin.

To reach the Middle Soldier Stage, one needed to also train one's bones. After reaching the Early Soldier Stage, the muscles slowly closed in on having enough power to break one's own bones if they were stressed too much.

Now, how did one train one's bones?

there were

made out of Bone Dissolving Grass. Just as the name suggested, Bone Dissolving Grass

would have been viewed as

treasure. With Mana, one could regrow bone with quite a

it was still a bit expensive due to the demand. However, it

method was

people could also buy medicine made out of Bone Dissolving Grass

was the slowest one of

to simply not train one's

very conducive when the goal was to train one's bones, but, ironically,

own muscles would break their

After all, not all the bones would be broken by the muscles. Chest muscles and head muscles needed

method was

break your bones and ingest healing

hardest to pull off. Not everyone had the willpower to straight-up break their

After all, if a bone broke in a weird way, it could cause

used the third method. It

But wait!

were so dangerous, how did Shang manage to pull it off in such a reckless manner

body, obviously. His mind didn't consume a large amount of Mana in comparison to people without a warrior's body. Additionally, Shang had always overfilled his Mana storages

into nearly killing themselves with no way back. Humans generally didn't

willpower weren't powerful enough,

one reached the Middle Soldier

the Late Soldier Stage,

breaking the bone wasn't enough to strengthen the production

to do that, one needed to bleed… a

into a bloodless crisis. The body had to be in a situation where, if

weren't enough, the body would switch from quantity to quality, allowing less blood to carry more Mana

a sufficient

people reached that level by ingesting

normal person ingested that powder, they would probably die since Mana was an essential component to

if a Mid Soldier Stage warrior

couldn't transfer enough Mana, so it upped the blood production and its

to train one's blood was to simply bleed a

bled quite a

Stage, one needed to train one's