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.'

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

Shang only smirked.

True Mages a lot more power, but if I go through a couple more strengthenings, it shouldn't be a

Mana Tranquility.

times

Mana Source. This gives them far more control over their Affinity. This was one of the reasons why Mages are so

course, the overwhelming strength of the Mages

Adepts underwent when

ores, stones,

would need to cast a very complicated Spell. No

least three years of practice to learn that Spell, and the Spell was also rather

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

directly need to go through Mana Tranquility. They could also become a True Mage

would mean that they would become the weakest True Mages, the ones that could only

they would

time the Mages were

a normal Mana Source only cost an Apprentice about 800 gold, while a Pure

to a Peak Soldier Stage

far

would be

Spell, learn the Spell, purchase the materials, and perform the

far closer connection to the Natural Mana that was around

a True Mage with

Mage with Mana Tranquility regenerated Mana three times as

terms, this meant that a True Mage with Mana Tranquility could keep casting low-cost Spells as fast as they could without reducing

like Lightning

Spells that

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

if they cast more powerful Spells or when

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

Tranquility essentially transformed Mages into gatling guns that never needed

more exhausting the Mage's Mana by evading their Spells

beat their

True Mage right now,' Shang thought. 'Of course, I would need to use all of my power. I think killing an average Initial