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 days to

to remember that Jerald was a Late High Mage. His mind was beyond

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

would probably take several

had to create a proper schedule to teach this technique to

the one teaching the

possibility, but all three of them

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

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

waiting for Mervin to finally reach the True Path Stage

sacrificed some of his time to teach

of that, he was a Mage. The

will teach it to Ranos 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

passing on the knowledge. The teachers

would go very

running an academy was quite effective at teaching

strengthening techniques that the barbarians use," Shang said. "We can also

many barbarians fled to the Skythunder Kingdom. We

"And why did

"the strengthening technique only worked for the Soldier Stage, which is basically worthless. After all, we didn't have

on adapting the barbarian strengthening technique to the Bloodline Infusion. This was my second

"You don't need to adapt it. I've

Jerald looked at

George gestured to Jerald to explain things since the issue was more related

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

Shang raised an eyebrow.

only listen to their first-hand accounts. We

a long time, and I can

know," Jerald said, "and your recounting of the events definitely helps. After all, your recounting will be from the viewpoint of a warrior and

problem is that the Council and the other Dukes are making problems. They don't want warriors to eat the hearts of beasts. It seemed,