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.

Stage warriors about how they were progressing in level, and he could only furrow his brows

how

few Mid True Path Stage warriors had reached that level by strengthening their

That was it.

warriors had advanced by focusing on their Mana Manipulation, which culminated in the creation

on refining their techniques

all of this, the strengthening of

were exclusively only strengthening their bodies by eating

the reason for

they should do

were they supposed to refine their techniques even more

They just couldn't imagine a way to increase their proficiency in

increase by a bit, but their strength increased by way more if their

that this method of training only worked until they reached the Peak True

that, they would

do. They would comprehend more Concepts and combine them

doing that as well, but how would that even

a Path that led to

to learn another weapon and create another

what? Fuse

would that even

transformation they had undergone when they reached the True

the next Realm without having to comprehend

was in a similar

to advance, but he also wasn't sure

normal warrior. After all, the minor breakthroughs were not nearly as important as the major breakthroughs between

could just increase their body to the peak and then focus on

things were

something that transformed his being in a vastly more powerful way

this particular

but if Shang could transform himself a little bit per normal breakthrough, he might gain enough momentum to achieve

The warriors have established their Paths, and now, they only have to walk

must be something further along

one knows what this thing looks like or what it needs to get

it would look like to

with a longsword might gain new powers or some

similar to the condensation of a

definitely important, but not nearly as important as for

of more refined

control over the Mana in

so many