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.

it, and it took him about three

had to remember that

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

warrior would probably take several months to a

to teach this technique to

the one teaching the

possibility, but all three of them voted

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 a

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

for Mervin to finally reach

if George sacrificed some of his time

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

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

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

would go very

almost like running an academy was quite effective at

techniques that the barbarians

already know of the technique," George said. "Over the years, many barbarians fled to the Skythunder Kingdom. We already know the entire

"And why did we never teach

the Bloodline Infusion," George answered, "the strengthening technique only worked for the Soldier Stage, which is basically worthless. After

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

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 Jerald looked at

since the

information, fear, 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

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

"and your recounting of the events definitely helps. After all, your recounting will be from the viewpoint of a warrior and not from a

that only solves one of the issues," Jerald continued. "Another problem is that the Council and the other Dukes are making problems. They don't want