Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang returned to the town and took over as Town Lord again.

He had only been gone for a couple of minutes, and nothing happened during those.

After checking through the town and making sure that everything was alright, Shang looked at the mortal district again.

It had changed so much.

The part of the mortal district outside the town was now over two kilometers wide, and the warriors had built powerful and tall walls.

The academies were packed with students.

By now, the academy had probably reached the level of the warrior's academy in Area 23.

In just 40 years, it had closed a gap of 400 years.

And how had the Warrior Academy achieved that?

Powerful Mages.

The Mages had built the academy.

The Mages' technology protected the town.

The Mages set up the mortal district.

The Mages had simplified the Bloodline Infusion and had created several methods to forge equipment.

The academy in Area 23 had gone through several dangerous times.

The Day of Chaos.

The civil war.

The threat of other Kingdoms.

But instead of fighting the Mages, the Warrior Academy here benefited from them.

By now, there were hundreds of Commander Stage warriors in the mortal district, and there was a two-digit number of True Path Stage warriors.

thought about the True Path Stage warriors, his Spirit Sense moved

They were diligently training.

it was training time. They would get

demanded that his students train for three weeks at a time

meant no family visits, no talking, no helping others, no running errands, no

weeks of complete isolation and

then, they would get a week to

to train, which Shang encouraged, but ultimately, they could

this policy was

four weeks of focused training with only

and

to become powerful to protect their loved ones, attain freedom, earn

lives would grow dull, unstimulating,

vanish, and training had turned from a hobby into

and children became estranged from

friends started

was what their Master demanded from them, they would

had seen their protest, he had snorted in

had seen it as a

Worthless.

though Shang didn't want to and even though he viewed it as a stupid decision, he still changed the

on his Disciples' accomplishments,

essentially forced to give in to the demands he saw as

Shang was probably right in his methods. In their words, they were simply not strong enough to dedicate their

to power and were thankful every day that their

But Shang didn't care.

not to let

were all so

throwing mountains of Mana Crystals down their gullets, but they could barely win against a beast a level

comprehend Paths and Impose on a platter, but

they would probably need 100 to 200 years to create

and reforging all

them would

it so difficult to comprehend these

They were so obvious!

struggled with the most basic stuff and

for his Disciples, but after years of being under

despised them as weak, but others said that this was simply