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.'

has its uses. I 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 keep even more

Shang only smirked.

gives the True Mages a lot more power, but if I go through a couple more strengthenings, it shouldn't be a problem to jump

Mana Tranquility.

thought about that term several times

more control over their Affinity. This was one of the reasons why

the Mages couldn't be fully attributed to

Tranquility was something that Adepts underwent when

Adept needed to buy several plants, ores, stones, and beast materials

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

at least three years of practice to learn that Spell, and

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

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

True Mages, the ones that could only work in the

knighted, but they would never enter true

wasn't the first time the Mages were confronted with

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

to a Peak Soldier Stage

far too much

Realm, once again, they would be confronted

the Spell, purchase

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

the difference between a True Mage with Mana Tranquility and

Mana Tranquility regenerated Mana three times as fast

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

Spells were Spells like

Spells that every

Mage with a Lightning Affinity could cast Lightning Bolts

would only lose Mana if they cast more powerful Spells

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

needed to

of Mana Tranquility, there was no more exhausting the Mage's Mana by evading their Spells for

beat their Mana out of

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 think killing an average Initial True