Anyone who would act like Treeda in any circumstance should not have anything to do with governance. If she's a decision maker, I would leave.

I love this story man

The Schweeb! I saw a Tom Scott video on that once

I have to ask, does Willo's name have one or two L's in it? it seems to change every now and again; it had two L's last chapter, but one here.

I could really do without the main character being a slaver of any kind. voluntary or otherwise, it's still slavery.

That was very well-written

bro I cried

Bro that was excellent.

this is such a cool thing for worldbuilding, getting to hear what's going on for most people at each level and seeing how people would move over time and such

You should probably just make Khan's ability to go without sleep part of his physiology or something, then you can have an actual explanation beyond willpower for how he just constantly functions on minimal sleep with his super packed schedule

Is this supposed to say Practor, or is this a trick of some kind?

"Fleet kept running" ... "He couldn't win, but he kept running. And when the storm caught him, it didn't matter that he'd died, because he'd run for all he had." ... "We all die in the end, you see...so I guess what matters is how well you've run." paraphrased out of context from Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson. I love the feeling these sorts of quotes invoke in me, and this chapter is the same. Well done.

But wait, I thought Shang's warrior path people weren't technically "warriors" either, since the Impose realm thing was a sort of skip of realms. Like that's a power that 6th realm stuff might have, unless I'm remembering wrong, which is very possible. Although if there're no actual "warriors" in the 5th realm, whatever that realm might actually be, I guess Shang and his students could just be called warriors. I figured they'd technically have some other name though. In any case, thanks for the chapter!

I wonder what ended up happening to that Oliver guy, the next reincarnator who ended up not interested in Shang and his power or whatever it was. I don't remember what happened to him, if it was mentioned at all.

I just realized, since all the other paths are dead, mages won't have had any experience fighting against warriors of higher levels, since they haven't existed in a long time. warrior powers are a complete mystery to them. nice advantage for shang

I will riot if you kill George off in the future, he's too good

ha

Whoops, that should probably say Briar, not Zac, right?

I can't think of any reasonable explanation for why he was the only one left in the dark about cultivation

gotta say, I'm a little tired of Cinyah's helicopter impression