Sword God in a World of Magic

All the barbarians gathered in front of the camp as soon as the sun came up, and Shang also quickly joined them.

Lash and the other barbarians that had come to him earlier stood close to him, showing their allegiance.

Even though the barbarians all stood in front of the camp, there were three distinct camps.

The biggest one wore no collars and surrounded the tall barbarian from the camp. There were about a hundred barbarians in that camp.

The second camp was only comprised of barbarians with collars, and that camp consisted of about 25 barbarians.

The last one was Shang's camp. There were two barbarians with collars, including himself, and five barbarians without collars. They were only seven.

The collared barbarians didn't heed Shang's camp any mind, but the bigger group of barbarians looked with narrowed eyes at Lash and Shang. They saw that Lash stood respectfully beside Shang, which meant that he was Lash's Leader.

However, they had never seen Shang do anything to show his power. On the first day of the criminals' arrival, Shang had only walked away, not showing his power or dominance.

To barbarians, if one had the power, one would show it. It was only natural to show that one was the strongest.

The fact that Shang didn't show his power made them mistrustful.

Shang didn't heed the barbarians any mind.

Their opinions were irrelevant.

The fact that the barbarians created different Tribes inside the military camp was already idiotic and childish to Shang.

Why would one want to establish themselves as the Leader while being confined in a cage?

Leader or not, when the Mages gave an order, everyone followed.

The Leader had no power, just like all the other barbarians.

After a couple of minutes, the commander over the camp arrived with her typical, cold expression. Behind her were two True Mages.

The commander was the strongest human for kilometers around since she was an Early True Mage.

Right now, Shang was rather sure that he would lose if he were to fight her.

This was the power he had to overcome if he wanted to regain his freedom.

And, for now, Shang wasn't powerful enough.

The commander looked at all the gathered barbarians for a while.

"The five strongest, step forward," she commanded.

The barbarians all looked at each other.

And more than five barbarians stepped forward.

From the biggest group, the Leader and three other barbarians stepped forward.

From the other camp, two stepped forward.

And from Shang's group, Shang and Lash stepped forward.

were eight barbarians that had stepped forward, and they

it would be too much hassle to organize several

is," she

SHING!

thick, black staff appeared out of thin air in

BOOOM!

over the gathered group, and they looked at

This thing was heavy!

the commander summon

lift this staff, you will be chosen for a special mission," she explained. "If you do well in this special mission, you will have proven your worth

the barbarians heard that, greed appeared in their eyes, and the barbarians that hadn't

their gazes and snorted. "Don't overestimate yourselves," she said. "I would be surprised if even one of

the barbarians took that as a provocation,

the commander said to the tall barbarian from

complied and

and took hold

tried to lift

muscles bulged, and his face became red, but the staff only very slowly

tall barbarian's body shook, and about ten seconds later, he managed to

under

needs to be lifted above your head," the

his teeth, and he tried

more centimeters, but when it reached his belly button, he

BOOOOM!

again, and another

barbarians had been

was this

was anyone supposed to

else?" the commander

main camp walked back to their group. The tall barbarian was the publicly acknowledged strongest in

the criminal camp stepped forward, and he also tried to

the staff to the middle of his shin

retreat as

want to try?"

his eyes and

he tried

his face became

his knees, Lash was already at his

But he kept going.

and even blood started

bloodshot, and blood exploded out of

But he kept going.

it to his waist, he managed to

he

BOOOM!

tremendous force, and Lash nearly

had proven his

than the tall barbarian's, but with

commander noted Lash's tremendous willpower and decided to look more closely into

there was