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.

Shang thought about the True Path Stage warriors,

They were diligently training.

the moment, it was training time. They would get their free time in

train for three weeks at a time with zero breaks and zero

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

weeks of complete

get a week to do whatever they

to train, which Shang encouraged, but ultimately, they

for this policy was

weeks of focused training with

and collectively gave Shang an

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

only training, their lives would grow dull, unstimulating, boring, grey,

to become powerful vanish, and training had turned from a

and children became estranged from

started

truly was what their Master demanded from

seen their protest, he had snorted in

a group of

Worthless.

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

his Disciples' accomplishments,

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. In

to power and were thankful every day that their Master

But Shang didn't care.

to let it

all

down their gullets, but they could barely win against a beast a level

Impose on a platter, but the

probably need 100 to 200 years to create their

needed 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

of them would

it so difficult to

They were so obvious!

with the most basic

for his Disciples, but after years of being under Shang, some of

as weak, but others said