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

of time, but one had to remember that Jerald was a Late High Mage. His mind was beyond

still hadn't mastered the Star Map, and according to his estimates, he would need

probably take several months to a

create a proper schedule to teach this technique to warriors.

that George would be the

possibility, but all three of them voted

level, one didn't count training in hours but in days. People on this level didn't train a couple

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

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

if George sacrificed some of his time to teach

of that, he was a Mage. The warriors definitely wouldn't be big fans of having a Mage teach them a technique specifically for

the technique, I 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 that, the teachers can teach the technique to

quickly, which made them perfect for passing on the knowledge. The teachers would

go

academy was quite effective at teaching

that the barbarians use," Shang said.

said. "Over the years, many barbarians fled to the Skythunder Kingdom. We

why did

of the Bloodline Infusion," George answered, "the strengthening technique only worked for the Soldier Stage, which

was also focusing on adapting the barbarian strengthening technique to the Bloodline Infusion. This was my second big project, the first one being the Path

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

Jerald

to Jerald to explain things since

fear, and politics,

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

been there for a long time, and I can give you all

Jerald said, "and your recounting of the events definitely helps. After all, your recounting

one of the issues," Jerald continued. "Another 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, and