Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang returned to his Isolation Barrier after talking with the Lightning Emperor and immediately started to read the books.

Reading books was something that Shang wasn't used to doing since he got all of his knowledge from other people or from his own experience.

In fact, it felt very weird to be reading a book.

Even more, Shang wasn't interested at all in the content.

Shang was interested in Concepts and how the world worked, but these books only talked about the history of how Mages comprehended Concepts and what they had learned.

Shang was essentially learning how to learn, which wasn't the most fun activity.

Nevertheless, Shang never lost his focus, even though he wasn't interested at all.

Shang read the first couple of books in barely a couple of minutes, but then, he read a book that was not as easy to comprehend.

The book didn't seem longer than all the other ones, but as soon as Shang started to go through the pages, he realized that the stack of pages near the end never seemed to shrink.

Just to check, Shang went to the last pages and looked at the page number.

1,534,917.

Shang closed the book and checked the cover.

Basic Guide to Comprehension.

Then, Shang opened the book again and continued reading.

The book was basically a list of different ways to comprehend Concepts, how people came up with these methods, how they worked, what the disadvantages and advantages were, and what the author of the book recommended.

Luckily, Shang didn't need to spend a lot of time on the book. Yes, it was very long, and Shang read all of it, but he didn't really need to calculate things. He just needed to read.

This book took Shang nearly an hour to read, and he didn't remember a lot of it since 99% of the contents were useless to him.

However, the one percent that was actually useful was REALLY useful.

didn't immediately open the next book. Instead, he reviewed his method of comprehending Concepts

book, and by reading how a third person evaluated

methods, and most important of all, one could use

than an hour, but he was sure that this single hour had probably saved him decades, if not

Shang looked at the books and began to organize

all the books that were related to comprehension methods he didn't find useful and leafed

them since they would very likely be useless, but it was still worth it to

enough, there were a couple of things that explained a bit more of the methods, but it wasn't that useful. It was just a

just an hour, Shang had consumed over a thousand books and got rid

decided to focus on more general

but about materials and substances that could

guide Shang had read, which prompted him to look at

was the same

was actually

Lightning Manor's Myriad King.

through all the other books and took out all of

Seven.

were all insanely long and

five days on these books, constantly cross-referencing

his own method

his method and focused on reading

couple of books were finished

already knew everything that

just a couple

at the seven books from

actually insane how condensed and perfectly understandable these

essentially the same thing but barely covered the surface while wasting a lot of time

literal Mage Emperor, how difficult would it be to learn all of what Shang had learned

someone like Shang, all of this didn't matter as much since he essentially had access to every

a normal

throughout the world, the average

confident that Mages outside Empires didn't have access to these books. The Mages' comprehension of Concepts

that only Clouds had access to all these books and probably not even for