Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang was pulled to the back of the village into a small and dark cave.

"What Element are you attuned to?" one of the Mages asked with a cold tone.

"Fire," Shang answered.

"Show me."

Shang lifted his arm, and a bit of fire appeared around it. The fire was very weak, and it only roughly appeared around his arm.

The Mage wasn't surprised and pulled Shang to one side of the cave.

The two chains were put to two cyan spots on the wall, and they fused with them. Shang still had enough chain left to sit down, but he couldn't walk further than a meter with them attached.

"If we see any damage on the chains or the ore, it will be treated as an escape attempt, and we will kill you," one of the two Mages said.

Shang only looked at them.

"Do you understand, One-Eye?" he asked.

Shang didn't answer.

BANG!

A big stone appeared in front of Shang and shot into his chest, breaking his ribs.

"Answer!" one of the Mages demanded with a strict voice.

Shang's expression didn't change.

"Yes," he said calmly. There was no rage inside his voice.

The Mage snorted, and the two of them left the cave again.

For some reason, they really hated this unaffiliated barbarian.

After the two of them left, silence returned to the cave.

Shang's expression didn't change, but he sat down near the wall.

'They probably use the desperation of the barbarians to force them down a path of strengthening,' Shang thought. 'The abuse and disregard will foster a feeling of resistance in some of the barbarians.'

'However, it isn't perfect. Many other barbarians will probably get demotivated and lose all hope, hindering them from unleashing their full potential.'

feel rage or humiliation

Why?

he was confident in his

the barbarian role, the

control the Mages had over the barbarians protected Shang's

Shang only counted as a dog, but he was their

wouldn't mind and let them fight, but if another human attacked their dog, they

This was their dog!

the other person was disrespecting them and indirectly attacking

no Mage would want

if Shang wasn't seen as an equal, he still had value

only be sent to fight battles he

Mages, barbarians were

was wasting money, and letting them get killed

Mages would send him into battles that he could win and in which he

shoes, this

Skythunder Kingdom, Shang had to constantly watch his

been sent after him, and the gigantic bounty on his head would send even more powerful Mages after

need to go into the wilderness and fight a beast, and while doing so, he needed to keep a look out for

But here?

had to wait

need to

battles came

there also were

didn't have access to any resources, and if the Mages found out that he

would have to essentially be a slave, and he would need to do

a slave only gets orders to do things they want to do, is that truly so bad?' Shang thought with

they are actually providing the very resources I need to grow

barbarians might need the techniques the Mages created to become more powerful, but

taught us how to create our own techniques and how to find ways to further our own power. As long as I get my hands on the techniques barbarians use to become more powerful, I can get familiar with them and eventually extrapolate a path

roughly how Magic works, and I know very well how warriors fight and

these two things and with my own body and mind as experimentation materials, I

young men inside the cave, but he remained

myself. I can always ask about their

closed his right eye and

he

looked around the room with boredom or

was quite difficult

time, they also just looked absentmindedly at

with a closed eye. However, his Mana Sense still kept watch