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.'

get more freedom, and the Mages will feel more secure when they see my power. After all, someone with so much

Shang only smirked.

more power, but if I go through a couple more strengthenings, it shouldn't be a problem to jump another

Mana Tranquility.

had thought about that term several times by

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

the overwhelming strength of the Mages couldn't be fully

something that Adepts underwent when they became

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

No

to learn that Spell, and

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

an Adept didn't directly need to go through Mana Tranquility. They could

True Mages, the ones that could only work in the

knighted, but they

time the

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

to a Peak

was far too much

again, they would be confronted with

the Spell, purchase the

them a far closer connection to the Natural Mana that

a True Mage with Mana Tranquility

regenerated Mana three times as fast

meant that a True Mage with Mana Tranquility could keep casting low-cost Spells as fast as they

were Spells like Lightning

were the most common Spells that

a Lightning Affinity could cast Lightning

they cast more powerful Spells or

the opponents Shang had fought in the Trial had undergone

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

more exhausting the Mage's Mana by evading their

would need to beat their

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 think killing an average