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.

Path Stage warriors about how they were progressing in level, and he

how

Path Stage warriors had reached that level

That was it.

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

they focused on

strengthening

now, the warriors were exclusively only strengthening their bodies

reason for that was

what they

supposed to refine their techniques even more when their bodies

They just couldn't imagine a way

Sure, their Battle-Strength might increase by a

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

would probably be

comparison to the warriors, the Mages knew exactly what to do. They

doing that as well, but how would

that led to their chosen

supposed to learn another weapon and

what? Fuse

would that even

undergo the transformation they had undergone

to reach the next

was in a similar

but he also wasn't sure if he should increase the

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

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

things were different for

his being in a vastly more powerful way than

keys to this particular

per normal breakthrough, he might gain enough momentum to

just as the name suggests, a path,' Shang thought. 'It must lead somewhere. The warriors have established their Paths, and now, they

like with the Star Map for Mages, there must be something further along the Path that the

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

imagined what it would look like to

gain new powers or some kind

to

over one's Mana was definitely important,

also some kind of more refined control over the

over the Mana

so many