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.

the barbarians were

was to give

That was all.

actual gate of the encampments, a couple of True Mages were eying him suspiciously. They were not constantly in their towers.

cannon fodder!" one of the True Mages

and looked down at

wanted to

familiar. Identify yourself!" he ordered as he looked at the gigantic sword

True Mage groaned with annoyance. "He's just another barbarian. We go through barbarians like pieces of paper. Of course you won't recognize all of

to be careful," the other True Mage said

come from the Strong Stone Tribe," Shang said slowly as he looked at

barbarians he had taught and another

Mage stepped forward and chanted a

Shang didn't look up.

later, Shang's right biceps shone with

commented in boredom. "Stop being

narrowed

lifted his head and looked upward

Mage stepped forward, touched the collar, and chanted

of runes appeared on the collar for around

True Mage only furrowed his brows and looked

at me," he

looked the True Mage

really scraping the bottom of

look away, and he did his best to keep his thoughts

Obviously, he had gotten quite annoyed with

should follow the new order or the

SLAP!

first True Mage slapped him, and Shang had to act like it hurt a lot. After all,

cheek to make it appear like the slap had