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.

Path Stage warriors, his

They were diligently training.

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

for three weeks at a time with zero breaks

family visits, no talking, no helping others,

of complete isolation

get a week to do whatever they

encouraged, but ultimately, they could

reason for this policy was a

demanded four weeks of focused training

and

to protect their loved ones, attain freedom,

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

and training had turned from a

wives and children became

started to

Master demanded from them, they would rather not be his

seen their protest,

seen it as a group

Worthless.

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

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

essentially forced to give in to the demands he saw as

that Shang was probably right in his methods. In their words, they

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

But Shang didn't care.

let it show, but he

were all so

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

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

need 100 to 200 years

had only needed about 80 years, and he had done that blindly while also completely designing and reforging all his Mana Pathways. Without that, he would

now, some of them would

so difficult

They were so obvious!

seemingly struggled with the most basic stuff and asked stupid questions

dislike for his Disciples, but after years of

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