Sword God in a World of Magic

After a couple of minutes of walking, Shang reached the actual frontlines.

He could see several huge walls, over ten Mage Towers, around 20 True Mages, and hundreds of barbarians.

20 True Mages was a bit on the meager side when it came to fortifications on a war front, but the hundreds of barbarians easily made up for that.

The fact that there were ten Mage Towers with only 20 True Mages told Shang that the Grandmountain Kingdom wanted to lose as few True Mages as possible.

One Mage Tower generally had two True Mages inside of it. They could work with the Magic Circles and perfectly split up the work.

One of them would plan, choose the attacks, and keep the Magic Circles running, while the other one only needed to aim and fire.

The Mana would mostly come from Mana Crystals, which were stored inside the Mage Tower itself.

So, with 20 True Mages, the ten Mage Towers could be used to their full force.

Obviously, the Grandmountain Kingdom saw their True Mages as more valuable than their actual resources. Otherwise, they wouldn't have built just as many Mage Towers as it needed True Mages to operate them.

They just didn't want to lose more True Mages.

As Shang looked at the army of barbarians, he saw hopelessness, fear, and frustration.

Based on how the defenses were set up, Shang could very well imagine how everything would go.

A couple of Adepts would herd the barbarians to the front while the True Mages shot at the enemy from their safe Mage Towers.

Naturally, an army of Fighter Stage barbarians was not very threatening to the Skythunder Kingdom. After all, most warriors could cut through them like cutting grass.

But that was not the purpose of the barbarian army.

Their purpose was just to slow the advancing offense down to give the Mage Towers more time to rain death on their enemies.

barbarians

to give their life

That was all.

True Mages were eying him suspiciously. They were not constantly in their towers. When there was no threat, a quarter of

cannon fodder!" one of the True Mages shouted at Shang with a strict

only stopped and looked

to appear

he looked at the gigantic sword on Shang's back. He didn't remember seeing

Mage groaned with annoyance. "He's just another barbarian. We go through

True Mage said with

the Strong Stone Tribe," Shang said slowly as

names of the barbarians he had taught and another barbarian's tribe. He was

forward and

Shang didn't look up.

right biceps shone with the emblem

Mage commented in boredom. "Stop

True Mage only narrowed his eyes.

his head and looked upward

True Mage stepped forward, touched the collar,

runes appeared on the collar for

his

me," he

looked the True Mage in

"We're really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

he did his best to

Mage ordered Shang. Obviously, he had gotten quite annoyed

if he should follow the new order

SLAP!

Shang had to act like it hurt a lot. After all, even though a True Mage's body wasn't very powerful, Shang was currently

bit his cheek to make it appear