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?

were

one was to ingest Bone Dissolving Grass or medicine made out of Bone Dissolving Grass. Just as the name suggested, Bone Dissolving Grass was a poison that

such a poison would have been viewed as

Mana, one

common, but it was still a bit expensive due to the demand. However, it wasn't an issue for someone in the Early Soldier Stage to get enough money to buy Bone Dissolving

that method was rather

could also buy medicine made out of Bone Dissolving Grass and

was the slowest one

was to simply not train one's

one's bones didn't sound very conducive when the goal was to train one's bones,

simply continued training their body, at one point, their own muscles would break their bones one by one, and

one did that. After all, not all the bones would be broken by the muscles. Chest muscles and head muscles needed a lot of time and training to

method was

break your bones and ingest healing

in a way, it was also the hardest to pull off. Not everyone had the willpower to straight-up

way, it could cause internal bleeding, which would quickly spell the death of the warrior

nearly no one used the

But wait!

did Shang manage to pull it off in such a

in comparison to people without a warrior's body. Additionally, Shang had always

Humans generally didn't like being in a situation where they had to do something drastic to survive, and

willpower weren't powerful enough, they would

reached

the Late Soldier Stage, one needed to train their

but just breaking the bone wasn't enough to

order to do that, one needed to

to be

body would switch from quantity to quality, allowing less blood to carry

things had been achieved to a sufficient degree, one would have reached the

reached that level by ingesting Mana Inhibition

someone. If a normal person

warrior ingested it,

it upped the blood production

other way to train one's blood was

bled quite

Soldier Stage, one