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.

and it took him about three

wasn't a lot of time, but one had to remember that Jerald was a

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

average Mid Commander Stage warrior would probably take several months to

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

was decided that George would be the one teaching the warriors after

Shang had also been a possibility, but all three

someone else would break his momentum. At such a high level, one didn't count training in hours but

one felt particularly motivated to work on one's power, one should take advantage of it. Having Shang focus on something else might break

He was only waiting for Mervin to finally reach the True Path Stage so that he could create his new

loss if George sacrificed some of his

to spare due to his packed schedule, and on top of that, he was a Mage. The warriors definitely wouldn't be big fans of having a Mage teach

and Soran. They will then teach it to the most talented Commander Stage warriors while I teach it to the other teachers," George said. "After that, the teachers can teach the

passing on the knowledge. The teachers would probably also learn the technique in quite a short

would go

like running an academy was quite effective at teaching

barbarians

years, many barbarians fled to the Skythunder Kingdom.

why did we

strengthening technique only worked for the Soldier Stage, which is basically worthless. After all, we didn't have access to this so-called Ascension

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

wasn't quite sure what the problem was. "You don't need to adapt it. I've been using it for a decade now, and it works

and Jerald looked at

George gestured to Jerald to explain things since the issue was

and politics, Shang," Jerald

Shang raised an eyebrow.

the few barbarians that flee to our Kingdom, and we can only listen to their first-hand accounts. We can't actually look into the Grandmountain Kingdom and see how things really are,

"I've been there for a long time, and I

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

continued. "Another problem is that the Council and the other Dukes are making problems. They don't want warriors to eat the hearts