Sword God in a World of Magic

Over the next couple of days, Shang trained the gathered barbarians. Since they were now more people, Shang could create pairs. That slowed individual growth, but it allowed Shang to teach more people at once.

Shang mostly only walked around and corrected the movements of the group like an instructor.

'To think that I actually got my own gym now,' Shang thought as he looked at the barbarians training with each other.

From time to time, Shang also trained with Lash since he was too powerful for everyone else at the moment.

However, most of the time, Shang focused on the technique.

He was trying to devise the last component of the technique on his own.

'By now, I'm pretty sure about how the technique works.'

'First, the barbarian has to empty their Mana to make space for the beast's Mana.'

'After that, they consume a huge chunk of the beast's Mana by consuming their heart.'

'The beast's Mana washes over their body unhindered and influences their bodies. It is a powerful force, but the body won't just absorb something foreign like that. Because of that, the barbarian has to exert their body.'

'The basic training forces the body to absorb Mana for energy and fuel. However, a lot of external Mana will also be absorbed this way, lowering the density of the beast's Mana.'

'But by using the specific movements, the barbarians are unknowingly fully concentrating on the Mana that's already available inside their bodies, which is the heart of the beast.'

'However, since the heart of the beast has to be on their level, and since a beast's body is far stronger than the barbarian's body, the beast has far more Mana. They have more foreign Mana in their body than their body can handle.'

'That's where the different cooldown periods come into play. For some reason, the beast's Mana probably becomes dangerous or unusable after the strengthening, and the more Mana remains, the longer it takes to naturally vanish.'

'By absorbing more during strengthening, the barbarian has to wait less time to train again.'

'So, the end-goal would be to make the training even more efficient. The last part of the technique should reduce the cooldown period even more and increase the efficiency of training.'

'The body is already emptied of Mana, and the body already absorbs absolutely everything it can from the beast heart by only using it as fuel. These two aspects can't be improved.'

'How can someone absorb more Mana than their body can take in without endangering them?'

This was the part that Shang had trouble with.

The training and efficiency just couldn't be improved anymore.

It was already as good as it could get.

only fit so much liquid into a

couple of days of training, Shang asked the barbarians about how

also learned about the names of the

Youngling Stage, and it

Stage was the Fighter Stage, and it was equivalent to the General Stage for

third Stage was called the Champion Stage, and

Path Stage didn't

to Shang how it worked to

a lot about the Mages in the Grandmountain

barbarian to reach a

a Youngling wanted to become a Fighter, they needed a

to become a Fighter, they had to request an Ascension

the Youngling would follow a Water

Youngling would

be cut off and

lot of barbarians died during their

course, the barbarians could request anesthesia, but they would have to spend a couple more years

Water Adept was responsible for keeping the Youngling alive

Youngling managed to survive,

when it came to reaching the

all,

wouldn't do the

be far more Mages

no barbarian actually knew what happened during the

of unfamiliarity regarding their own body and with a lot more blood and gore around

since they are the only ones with healing capabilities. If the barbarians tried these Ascensions on their own, they would die

to the Procedure. The first Ascension is probably the replacing of the skin, and the second Ascension

and organs are left, but how do they replace these parts without killing the barbarian? There's only so much trauma their body can

of the beasts are also different, and they can't be transplanted one by one without killing the barbarian. Even more, while the muscles and skin are flexible and moldable, things aren't as easy for the bones. On top of that, digging out every bone one by one and replacing them will definitely kill the

somehow

simply recreated

the Mages aren't from Earth, and they don't know a

while they probably have some inklings as to how to transplant the organs and bones, they probably have no idea about how to replace the

do you transplant a beast brain into a barbarian

done with different beasts on different occasions, the body is already not one whole being. It's a being

Procedure is many, many times better

moment, Shang had to