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.

the True Path Stage warriors, his Spirit Sense moved and looked

They were diligently training.

would get their

three weeks at a time with zero breaks

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

of complete isolation and

get a week to do whatever

to train, which Shang encouraged, but ultimately,

for this policy was a

weeks of focused training with

students banded together and collectively gave Shang an

to protect their loved ones, attain freedom, earn money,

only training, their lives would

found their own motivation to become powerful vanish, and training had turned from a hobby into something

and children

started to

Master demanded from them, they would rather not be

had seen their protest,

as a group of children throwing

Worthless.

to and even though he viewed it as a stupid

Disciples' accomplishments, and if he

essentially forced to give

and they had also said that Shang was probably right in his methods. In their words,

Master for his dedication to power and were thankful every day that their Master

But Shang didn't care.

to let it show, but he despised

were all so

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

Paths and Impose on a platter, but the

100 to 200 years to create their

about 80 years, and he had done that blindly while also completely designing and reforging all his Mana Pathways. Without that, he would have probably only taken 50 years, at

them would take 200

so difficult to

They were so obvious!

the most basic stuff and asked stupid

his dislike for his Disciples, but after years

said that this was simply how their