Sword God in a World of Magic

After talking with Jerald for a while, Shang left again.

From what Mervin had told him, the frequency of the assaults had decreased tremendously.

Shang and Mervin were in agreement that the Magic Purity Kingdom probably feared a counterattack from the Skythunder Kingdom with all their forces.

Luckily, they didn't know that what they had encountered today was basically all the available forces the Skythunder Kingdom possessed.

If the Magic Purity Kingdom knew of the civil war, they would have probably gathered the majority of their forces in one all-out attack.

That would have proven to be devastating for the Skythunder Kingdom.

Nevertheless, Shang remained on standby in case the Magic Purity Kingdom launched another assault.

But when three days passed with only some unimportant skirmishes happening, Shang decided that he no longer needed to remain on standby. After all, Sylvia was also ready to intervene.

Additionally, Jerald would soon return from the western Skythunder Kingdom.

Most of the citizens of the western Skythunder Kingdom had already evacuated to the central Skythunder Kingdom. They didn't do so willingly but because they had to.

The Magic Purity Kingdom was infamous for its hatred of impure people. Every citizen and Mage that lived together with warriors was an enemy to the Magic Purity Kingdom.

The Skythunder Kingdom became way more crowded, but there was still enough space for all the new citizens. They simply had to add one or two more towns per Zone, which wasn't that much.

Jerald's Inquisitors were working overtime, and they had already executed over a thousand True Mages in the past couple of days.

It was a bloodbath, and it weakened the Skythunder Kingdom.

However, this would ensure longtime prosperity and unity.

Jerald became extremely hated amongst the citizens, but there was nothing major they could do.

The most they could do was to emigrate to the Spirit Spring Kingdom, and quite a bit of the citizens did so, but that wasn't really that damaging to the Kingdom.

Yes, citizens brought in taxes and business, but gold and normal goods had nearly zero impact on a Kingdom's actual power.

The True Path Stage resources were the most important things for a Kingdom's power.

As Shang left his position, his mind wandered away from the war and entered training mode.

It had been quite a while since he had been able to train to his heart's content, and even more, he could now train wherever he wanted in the Skythunder Kingdom.

But before he actually started training, he had to think about a way to actually progress.

a lot with many different True Path Stage warriors about how they were progressing

like, how they

True Path Stage warriors had reached that level by strengthening their

That was it.

by focusing on their

focused on refining

strengthening

warriors were exclusively only strengthening their bodies by

for that

what they should do to

their techniques even more when their bodies

their insights. They just

of new techniques even bring? Sure, their Battle-Strength might increase by a bit, but

training only worked until they

they would

warriors, the Mages knew exactly what to do. They would comprehend more Concepts and combine them into more powerful

already thought about doing that as well, but how

a Path that led

learn another weapon and

what?

that

had undergone when they

the next Realm

in a

he also wasn't sure if

the body definitely wouldn't be a bad thing for a normal warrior. After all, the minor breakthroughs were not nearly as important as the

normal warrior could just increase their body to the peak and then focus on finding a way to the

things were different

his being in a vastly more powerful way than

this particular transformation were the

weren't as important, but if Shang could transform himself a little bit per normal breakthrough, he might gain enough momentum to achieve a significant

path,' Shang thought. 'It must lead somewhere. The warriors have established

there must be something further along the Path that

no one knows what this thing looks

like to reach the next Realm for a normal

a longsword might gain new powers or some kind of

to the

control over one's Mana was definitely important, but not nearly as important as

some kind of

control over the Mana in

so many