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.

eight barbarians that had stepped forward, and they all glared at each other, except for

would

is," she

SHING!

of thin air in front

BOOOM!

hit the ground, a heavy quake washed over the gathered group, and they looked at the staff

This thing was heavy!

commander

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

heard that, greed appeared in their eyes, and the barbarians that

she said. "I would be surprised

barbarians took that as a provocation, but they didn't dare to

to the tall barbarian from

barbarian complied

crouched down and took hold of

he tried to lift

red, but the staff only very

and about ten seconds later, he managed to lift it

arms trembled under the tremendous

needs to be lifted above your head," the

gritted his teeth, and

a couple more centimeters, but when it reached his belly

BOOOOM!

heavy staff hit the ground again, and another powerful quake

barbarians had been shocked

was

anyone supposed to lift

the

camp walked back to their group. The tall barbarian was

point, the Leader of the criminal camp

lift the staff to the middle of his shin

made those two retreat as well,

want to try?" Shang asked

his eyes and stepped

tried

body shook, and his face became red, but the staff moved

staff reached his knees, Lash was already at his

But he kept going.

lifting, and even blood started to

become completely bloodshot, and blood

But he kept going.

he managed to hold it there for about two

he

BOOOM!

ground with tremendous force, and Lash nearly fell

he had proven his power

than the tall barbarian's, but with tremendous willpower, he

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

there was only