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

days of training, Shang asked the

learned about the names of

Stage was the Youngling Stage, and it was equivalent to the Soldier Stage

Stage, and it was equivalent to the General Stage for

Stage was called the Champion Stage, and it was equivalent to the Commander

Path Stage didn't exist

how it worked to

told him a lot about the Mages

impossible for a barbarian to reach a new Stage without the help of

wanted to become a

ready to become a Fighter,

Youngling would follow a Water Adept into a

would go

would be cut

lot of barbarians died

could request anesthesia, but they would have to spend a

responsible for keeping the Youngling alive

managed to survive, they became

different when it came to

all, anesthesia

wouldn't do the

be far more Mages

due to the anesthesia, no barbarian actually knew what happened during

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

healing capabilities. If the barbarians tried these Ascensions on their own,

is probably the replacing of the skin, and the second Ascension

create a True Path Stage barbarian yet. They know that only the bones and organs are left, but how do they replace these parts without killing the barbarian? There's only so much trauma their body

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.

somehow manage to

simply recreated

and they don't know a

some inklings as to how to transplant the organs and bones, they probably have no

beast brain into a barbarian brain without killing the

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

that the Procedure is many, many times better than

Shang had to