Sword God in a World of Magic

After strengthening himself for the first time as a barbarian, Shang left the tunnels together with Lash.

"Did you feel a difference?" Shang asked.

"A lot of things make sense now," Lash said. "Previously, I noticed that I grew stronger by much more on some occasions and not as much on others."

"This time, I grew by a lot."

Shang nodded. "Good to hear," he said.

The two of them left the caves and returned to the group of barbarians, who were surprised and not surprised to see Shang alive at the same time.

On one hand, Shang and Lash had killed two Peak General Stage beasts very quickly, which almost seemed impossible, but on the other hand, Shang was the strongest of them, and they had full trust in him.

There was a weird conflict in their minds about whether or not what Shang did was impossible or natural.

In the end, their minds could only feel astonishment.

Their new Leader was truly powerful!

Shang and the group of barbarians resumed training.

But just a couple of days later, the Mages sent an announcement to the troop.

Tomorrow, they would attack!

'So, it's finally happening,' Shang thought. 'I was wondering if this was actually a military camp since I've been here for nearly a month without any enemy contact. Almost felt like a vacation. Well, I guess that's also why so many barbarians want to go to this front.'

The barbarians prepared themselves over the next day.

Tomorrow, they would enter battle, and it was unknown how many of them would be able to come back.

Shang also trained with Sword for the entire night to test his newfound strength.

'I should be careful of not unveiling too much power,' he thought. 'It's not an issue when I'm the strongest barbarian, but the gap shouldn't be too vast. Additionally, I need to keep my Domain and my mastery over my Mana and Affinities secret.'

will get more freedom, and the Mages will feel more secure when they see my power. After all, someone with so much power couldn't

Shang only smirked.

Mages a lot more power, but if I go through a couple

Mana Tranquility.

that term several times by now, but what

far more control over their Affinity. This was one of

the overwhelming strength of the Mages couldn't be fully attributed

was something that Adepts underwent when they

plants, ores, stones, and

complicated Spell. No one else could cast the Spell on them. Only the

of practice to learn that Spell, and the

all, the Spell plus practice plus materials would set back the Adept about five million gold, a ridiculous sum for

course, an Adept didn't directly need to go through Mana Tranquility. They could also become a

True Mages, the ones that could only work

they

first time the Mages were confronted with

only cost an Apprentice about 800 gold, while a Pure

for someone equivalent to a Peak

was far too much

Realm, once again, they would be confronted with something

managed to purchase the Spell, learn the Spell, purchase the materials, and perform the Spell, their investment would

Tranquility gave them a far closer connection to the Natural Mana that was around them all

a True Mage with Mana Tranquility

with Mana Tranquility regenerated Mana three times

keep casting low-cost Spells as fast as they could without reducing

low-cost Spells were Spells like Lightning Bolt, Icicle,

common Spells that every

Mage with a Lightning Affinity could cast Lightning Bolts at insane speeds, and they wouldn't run out of

would only lose Mana if they cast more

fought in the Trial had undergone Mana Tranquility, he would have died against his

needed

Tranquility, there was no more exhausting the Mage's Mana by

need to beat their Mana out of

to use all of my power. I think killing an average Initial True Mage with Mana Tranquility is only slightly easier than winning against