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.'

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

Shang only smirked.

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

Mana Tranquility.

times by now, but what was it

an Apprentice becomes an Adept, they absorb a Mana Source. This gives them far more control over their

of the Mages couldn't be fully

was something that Adepts underwent when

ores, stones, and beast materials that conformed

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

learn that Spell, and the Spell

back the Adept about five million gold, a ridiculous sum for someone in the Second Realm. After all, their Focus barely cost 500

go through Mana Tranquility. They could also become a True Mage without

that they would become the weakest True Mages,

be knighted, but they would never

time the Mages were

about

someone equivalent to

far too

True Mage Realm, once again, they would be confronted with something that was very, very

to purchase the Spell, learn the Spell,

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

a True Mage with Mana Tranquility and

Mana three times as fast as

Mana Tranquility could keep casting

Spells like

the most common Spells that every Mage used during

Lightning Affinity could cast Lightning Bolts

lose Mana if they cast more powerful Spells or when they were

undergone Mana Tranquility, he would have

transformed Mages into gatling guns that never needed to reload as long as they only fired

more exhausting the Mage's Mana by evading their Spells for

beat their Mana

Shang thought. 'Of course, I would need to use all of my power. I