Sword God in a World of Magic

"King Skythunder gave his permission to distribute the Star Map," Duke Whirlwind proclaimed with a victorious smile to George and Shang.

He told them all about what had happened and what changes would occur in the next couple of days.

However, Shang and George only felt relieved.

This made things so much easier.

"That's good to hear, Duke Whirlwind," Shang said.

When Duke Whirlwind heard that, he did a double take. "Duke Whirlwind?" he asked.

Shang raised an eyebrow.

"Shang, I thought we were closer than that," Duke Whirlwind said. "Just call me Jerald."

"Oh," Shang said. "I wasn't sure if that was appropriate."

"You are no longer subservient to me, Shang," Jerald said. "We are on equal footing, and we are working towards the same goal. Our powers might still be quite far away from each other, but it will only be a matter of time."

"I've seen how determined you are, Shang, and I know that you might become the very warrior to completely close the gap and maybe go even further."

Shang wasn't sure what he should say to that.

Yes, that was his goal, but it felt a bit weird hearing it come from someone else.

It sounded unreal.

Jerald, George, and Shang talked for a while longer. They had to plan how to properly distribute the Star Map and how they should teach the warriors.

Thanks to the God, Shang had comprehended the Star Map in an instant, but for everyone else, learning the Star Map was definitely not an easy undertaking.

learned it, and it took him

wasn't a lot of time, but one had to remember that Jerald was a Late High Mage. His

Map, and according to his estimates, he would need another three weeks or

Stage warrior would probably take several

create a proper schedule to teach this technique to warriors. Having someone teach someone in person expedited

George would be the one teaching the warriors after

also been a possibility, but

to teach someone else would break his momentum. At such a high level, one didn't count training in hours but in days. People on this level didn't train a couple of hours at a time but several days at

at seemingly random times. If one felt particularly motivated to work on one's power, one should take advantage of it. Having Shang focus on something

was only waiting for Mervin to finally reach the True Path Stage so that he

a loss if George sacrificed some of his time to

time to spare due to his packed schedule, and on top of that, he was a

teach it to the most talented Commander Stage warriors while I teach it to

Shang nodded. Ranos and Soran would learn the technique very quickly, which made them perfect for passing on the knowledge. The teachers would probably also learn the technique

go

like running an academy was quite effective at

barbarians

"Over the years, many barbarians fled

why did we

for the Soldier Stage, which is basically worthless. After all, we didn't have access to this

couple of years, I was also focusing on adapting the barbarian strengthening technique to the Bloodline Infusion. This was my second big project, the first one

the problem was. "You don't need to adapt it. I've been using

Jerald looked at

Jerald to explain things since the issue was more related to

of information, fear, and politics, Shang," Jerald said

Shang raised an eyebrow.

only listen to their first-hand accounts. We can't actually look into the Grandmountain Kingdom and see how things really are, making the information foggy

long time, and

of the events definitely helps. After all, your recounting will be from

the Council and the other Dukes are making problems. They don't want warriors to eat the hearts of beasts. It seemed, and mind the pun, very barbaric