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.

took him about three days to

but one had to remember that Jerald was a Late High

according to his estimates,

would probably take several months to a year to

to create a proper schedule to teach this technique to

be the one teaching the warriors after he

also been a possibility,

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

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 else might break the flow of

comparison to him, George was basically standing still. He was only waiting for Mervin to finally reach the True Path

wouldn't be a loss if George sacrificed some of his time 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

Soran. They will then teach it to the most talented Commander Stage warriors while I teach it

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

would go very

running an academy was quite effective at

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

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

"And why did we

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

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

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

Jerald looked at

to Jerald to explain things since the issue was

information, fear, and politics, Shang,"

Shang raised an eyebrow.

have access to 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

"I've been there for a long time,

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

that the Council and the other Dukes are making problems. They don't want