Sword God in a World of Magic

Mistra continued summoning one warrior after the other, and eventually, she reached the Mid Impose Stage warriors.

Those were the ones that taught nearly everyone else. In total, there were seven, but only three of them had apparently taken up the mantle of teacher.

When she asked the Mid Impose Stage warriors questions, Mistra became a bit surprised.

Their answers were different.

They were far more detailed.

The other warriors had explained what they were doing and why they were doing it, but they didn't explain why the stuff they were doing actually worked.

Yet, these Mid Impose Stage warriors were also explaining why the things they were doing actually produced results.

This time, Mistra took longer to ask the Impose Stage warriors about their thoughts, and she also started to jot down a lot of new things in her booklet.

"And where did you learn all of these things?" she asked near the end.

"Master taught me," the warrior explained, gesturing to Shang.

"Oh?" Mistra muttered. This had been the first time anyone had directly been in contact with this mysterious white warrior. Everyone else had only talked about him in a very distant way like they had never actually met.

"I've noticed that you and two other warriors were referred to as teacher by many warriors. How come your disciples are calling you teacher, but you call your teacher master?" Mistra asked.

"There are many teachers but only one Master," the warrior said. "We chose not to use the title master out of our respect for our Master."

"We are teachers, not masters," he said.

"Mhm," Mistra uttered. "And your master is not a teacher?"

Surprisingly, the warrior didn't answer for two seconds.

"No," he said.

"What's the difference?" Mistra asked.

The warrior remained silent for a bit.

Then, he looked over at Shang for a while and looked back.

"Because we care about our students," he said.

of the remaining

of them frowned at the warrior, while others looked

all of these reactions, which piqued

you saying something like that?" Mistra

incredible things for us, and he taught us things we could have never comprehended on our

from a more emotional standpoint, I wish that I wasn't just

only taught us because of some monetary gain. I don't know

care about

many Impose Stage warriors as possible, and he didn't

Silence.

the present warriors

to summarize, you've had a very competent and knowledgeable teacher, but he has

"Correct," the warrior said.

things and

she talked to the next warrior, Shang came

the warrior basically said the same thing as the previous

the reactions were neutral or negative. The remaining four Mid Impose Stage warriors didn't have as many problems with

the next

believe everything the previous two have said," the warrior said immediately before Mistra could ask

me get through the questions first," Mistra said with a slight chuckle. "You will get

"Okay," the warrior said.

of Shang came up, and

teacher or a master is not about building a relationship. We have parents, friends, and family to build relationships. Having a master or a teacher means learning something.

and student. Anyone that believes that a master or a teacher has to coddle you

taught us very well. That is

under them, just like you. You three

The warrior nodded.

your ideology so different from

"Initially, they tried to gain Master's favoritism, but as soon as they were under him for a while, they only complained. They cried all the time that they wanted more free time and that Master was supposed to help us

forcing them to

"But they didn't."

Master didn't allow them to. They don't seem thankful at

couple of times. "Why have you become a

lived in mediocrity, thinking that there was no way forward. I was a Commander Stage warrior in a

and when I reached the True Path Stage, he took me

in my life again, and that's why I want to teach people. I don't want them

realized.