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

couple of days of training, Shang asked the barbarians about how they could reach the Commander

learned about the names of the

Youngling Stage, and it was equivalent to the

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

and

Path Stage

explained to Shang how it worked to

what Shang learned told him a lot about the Mages in the Grandmountain

a new Stage without the help of a

a Youngling wanted to become a

was ready to become a Fighter, they had to request an

the Ascension were granted, the Youngling would follow a Water Adept

would go

skin would be cut off and

and a lot of

could request anesthesia, but they would have to spend a couple

for keeping the

to

a bit different when it came to reaching the

all,

wouldn't do

would also be far more

to the anesthesia, no barbarian actually

woke up with a feeling of unfamiliarity regarding their own body and with

healing capabilities. If the barbarians

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

also explains why the Mages haven't been able to create a True Path Stage barbarian yet. They know that only the bones and organs are left, but how do they

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

somehow manage to

they have simply

from Earth, and they don't know

how to transplant the organs and bones,

beast brain into

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

the Procedure is many, many times

Shang