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.

True Path Stage warriors, his

They were diligently training.

They would get their free time in a couple

for three weeks at

talking, no helping others, no running errands, no

of complete

would get a

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

reason for this policy was

focused training with only

and collectively gave

powerful to protect their loved ones, attain freedom, earn

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

and training had turned from

and children

friends started to

Master demanded from them,

Shang had seen their protest, he had

a

Worthless.

he viewed it as a

he liked it or not, his future was dependent on his Disciples' accomplishments, and if he didn't have

give in

profusely, and they had also said that Shang was probably right in his methods. In their words, they were simply not strong enough to dedicate their entire lives

their Master for his dedication to power and were

But Shang didn't care.

best not to let

all

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

comprehend Paths and Impose on a

that they would probably need 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

of them would take 200

difficult to comprehend

They were so obvious!

seemingly struggled with the most basic stuff and asked stupid questions with obvious

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

as weak, but others said that this was