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.

fit so much liquid into a

training, Shang asked the barbarians about how they could

learned about the names of the

Stage, and it was equivalent to the

was the Fighter Stage, and it

third Stage was called the Champion Stage, and

Stage didn't exist

Shang how it worked to

Shang learned told him a lot about the Mages

impossible for a barbarian to reach a new

wanted to become

Fighter, they

granted, the Youngling would follow a

the Youngling would go

parts of their skin would be cut off and replaced by beast

was insanely painful, and a lot of barbarians died

anesthesia, but they would have to

Water Adept was responsible for keeping the Youngling alive

Youngling managed to survive,

a bit different when it came

all,

do the operation without

be far more

anesthesia, no barbarian actually knew what

feeling of unfamiliarity regarding their own body and with a lot

with healing capabilities. If the barbarians tried these Ascensions

very similar to the Procedure. The first Ascension is probably the replacing of the skin, and the second Ascension probably replaces the muscles and

bones and

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

somehow manage to do

have simply recreated

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

how to transplant the organs and bones, they probably have

do you transplant a beast brain into a

is already not one whole

that the Procedure is many, many times

moment, Shang had