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.

thought about the True Path Stage warriors,

They were diligently training.

it was training time. They would get their free

for three weeks at a

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

weeks of complete isolation and

get a week to

encouraged, but ultimately, they could do what

this policy was

four weeks of focused training with only three

students banded together and collectively gave

powerful to protect their loved ones, attain freedom, earn money, and

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

motivation to become powerful vanish, and training had turned from a hobby

children became estranged

started to

from them,

Shang had seen their protest,

seen it as a group of children throwing

Worthless.

to and even though he viewed it as a

was dependent on his Disciples' accomplishments, and if he didn't have any Disciples, his future looked

that, he was essentially forced to give

in his methods. In their words, they were simply not strong enough to dedicate their entire

power and were thankful every

But Shang didn't care.

to let it show, but he despised his

all so

but they could barely win against a beast a level above

and Impose on a platter, but the progress

probably need 100 to 200 years

and reforging all his Mana Pathways. Without that, he would have probably only taken 50 years, at

now, some of them would

was it so difficult to comprehend

They were so obvious!

seemingly struggled with the most basic stuff and

tried to hide his dislike for his Disciples, but after years of being under Shang, some of them had seen

Shang despised them as weak, but others said that this was simply how their Master was and how he