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.

Stage warriors, his

They were diligently training.

would get their free time in

three weeks at a time with

no helping others, no running errands,

complete isolation and

then, they would get a week to do

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

reason for this

four weeks of focused training with only three

students banded together and collectively gave

protect their loved ones, attain

only training, their lives would grow dull, unstimulating,

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

children

started to

truly was what their Master demanded from them, they

had seen their protest,

had seen it as a group of children throwing

Worthless.

even though Shang didn't want to and even though he viewed it as

Disciples' accomplishments, and if he

of that, he was essentially forced to give in

thanked him profusely, and they had also said that Shang was probably right in his methods.

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

But Shang didn't care.

to let it show, but he despised his

all so

was throwing mountains of Mana Crystals down their gullets, but they could

essentially presenting the way to comprehend Paths and Impose on a platter, but the progress

100 to 200 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

of them would take

it so difficult

They were so obvious!

his Disciples seemingly struggled with the most basic stuff and

to hide his dislike for his Disciples, but after years of

of them thought that Shang despised them as weak, but others said that this was