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

was to give their life to

That was all.

Shang arrived at the actual gate of the encampments, a couple of True Mages were eying him suspiciously. They were not constantly in their towers. When there was no threat, a quarter

True Mages

looked down at

wanted to

yourself!" he ordered as he looked at the gigantic

groaned with annoyance. "He's just another barbarian. We go through barbarians like pieces

other True Mage said

I come from the Strong Stone Tribe,"

had taught and another barbarian's tribe. He was essentially mixing

stepped forward and chanted

Shang didn't look up.

shone with the emblem of

the other True Mage commented

only narrowed his

slowly lifted his head and looked upward

forward, touched the

couple of runes appeared on the collar for around three

his brows

at me,"

looked the True Mage

sneered. "We're really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. We even get cripples

look away, and he did his best to

True Mage ordered Shang. Obviously, he had gotten

follow the

SLAP!

first True Mage slapped him, and 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 mimicking a Mid Fighter

his cheek to make it appear like the