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,

They were diligently training.

training time. They would get their free time in a couple

that his students train for three weeks

no talking, no helping others, no

complete isolation

a

which Shang encouraged, but ultimately, they could do

this policy

four weeks of focused training with only three days of free

and

to protect their loved ones, attain freedom, earn

lives would grow dull, unstimulating, boring, grey,

become powerful vanish, and training had turned from a

and children became estranged from

started to

truly was what their Master demanded from them,

their protest, he had snorted in

had seen it as a

Worthless.

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

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

thanked him profusely, and they had also said that Shang was probably right in his methods. In their words, they were simply not

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

But Shang didn't care.

best not to let it show,

all

down their gullets, but

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

they would probably need 100 to

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,

some of them would take

it so difficult to comprehend

They were so obvious!

seemingly struggled with the most basic stuff and

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

them thought that Shang despised them as weak, but others said that