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,

They were diligently training.

would get their free time in a couple of

students train for three weeks at a

family visits, no talking, no helping others,

complete isolation

a week

encouraged, but ultimately,

this

training with only

and collectively gave

loved ones, attain

only training, their lives would grow dull,

become powerful vanish, and training had

children

friends started to

was what their Master demanded from

their protest, he had snorted

it as a group of children

Worthless.

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

or not, his future was dependent on his Disciples' accomplishments, and

give

and they had also said that Shang was probably right in his methods. In their words, they

and were thankful every day

But Shang didn't care.

to let it show, but he

were all so

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

was essentially presenting the way to comprehend Paths and Impose on a

probably need 100 to

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 taken

of them

difficult to comprehend these

They were so obvious!

with the most basic stuff and asked stupid questions

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

weak, but others said that this was simply how their Master was and