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.'

I will get more freedom, and the Mages will feel more secure when they see my

Shang only smirked.

power, but if I go through a couple more strengthenings,

Mana Tranquility.

term several times by now, but what

absorb a Mana Source. This gives them far more control

course, the overwhelming strength of the Mages couldn't be fully attributed to

something that Adepts underwent when they became True

several plants, ores, stones, and beast materials that conformed

need to cast a very complicated Spell. No one else could cast

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

plus practice plus materials would set back the Adept about five million gold, a ridiculous sum for someone in the Second Realm.

need to go through Mana Tranquility. They could also become

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

knighted, but they would never

time the Mages were confronted with issues

an Apprentice about 800 gold, while a Pure Mana Source

gold for someone equivalent to a Peak Soldier

was far too

the True Mage Realm, once again, they would be confronted with something

Spell, purchase the materials, and perform the Spell, their investment

them a far closer connection to the Natural Mana that was

a True Mage with Mana Tranquility

Tranquility regenerated Mana three times as fast as

True Mage with Mana Tranquility could keep casting low-cost Spells as fast as they could without reducing

Spells like Lightning Bolt, Icicle,

common Spells that

could cast Lightning Bolts

if they cast more powerful Spells or when they

in the Trial had undergone Mana Tranquility, he would

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

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

need to beat their Mana out of

Mana Tranquility, I'm confident that I could kill an Initial True Mage right now,' Shang thought. 'Of course, I would need to use all of my power. I