Sword God in a World of Magic

"Wake up," the man said with an annoyed voice. "It's time for our deal."

Shang slowly opened his eyes with annoyance.

The two of them had argued for way too long.

In the end, they had come to a deal.

Shang could sit on the ground for the night, but when people would begin to show up, he would sit on the chair.

Shang stood up, pulled the chair over, and sat down.

"Was that so hard?" the man asked.

"I can also just sit on the ground again," Shang answered with an even voice.

"Hmph," the man only snorted.

In the next couple of minutes, Shang saw the sky slowly light up.

The braziers had been put out a couple of minutes ago, and Shang heard the first faint noises of movement from the surrounding houses.

It seemed like the 500 or so people directly living in the city had their houses adjacent to the academy.

A couple minutes later, Shang saw the first people exit their houses. They walked with practiced ease to their destinations.

"Bakers and smiths," the man said. "They have to wake up very early."

"Mhm," Shang muttered.

Some minutes later, the sky became bright enough that even a normal person could see in the streets. Due to the high elevation and the walls, the dawn couldn't be seen from within the city.

Some more minutes later, more people began to exit their houses as they all walked in the direction of the city center. Those were probably all the merchants and other artisans.

WHOOOOM!

Suddenly, a loud horn echoed throughout the city, and Shang looked up.

"That's the signal that the gates are being opened," the man explained as he stood up. Then, he walked over to the gate and simply pushed it open.

"It wasn't locked?" Shang asked.

"Why would we lock it? I'm here, after all," he said.

The man stretched a bit as he fixed his clothing. He had to appear presentable to the students.

Some minutes later, Shang heard the sound of a horde of people moving, and a couple of seconds later, Shang saw several youngsters and children walk towards the academy.

Some of them were ten-year-old kids.

Some were already adults.

Some wore bronze uniforms.

Some wore yellow uniforms.

Some walked in groups.

Some walked alone.

one thing was the same for

least one weapon on

Some of them looked with

"Hello, teacher!"

"Good morning, teacher!"

done with

greeted the middle-aged man beside the

polite, while

gave some polite and curt replies while

popular, huh?"

they only respect my status," the man answered quietly, "but at least they

want to start with that topic again?"

the man harrumphed without saying anything more to

looking at the passing

They just didn't end!

entire street was crowded with people. It was almost

also become very noisy and loud. The number of guards on the walls had also

Shang saw a

shadow of a person had just jumped from the wall,

noticed Shang's gaze. "He oversees the security of the city by

in surprise. "Doesn't he

to sleep any longer. Don't forget, the

Shang remembered everything he had been

in the world stayed

warrior that had ever managed to reach the Fourth Realm, the same

feeling of wonder when he realized that he had just caught a

had meant taking

the flood of students slowly subsided. Yet, what replaced the students were the

walking down the

armor, but their uniforms were obviously designed to also be

barrier between teacher and

were all adults

BOOOM!

came from

and he saw a gigantic ballista on

the distance. Two of them wore silver armor, while the

obviously come

second later, the guards high-fived

Storks fly too close to the city," the teacher explained. "They are Beasts in the Third Realm, the Commander Stage. We can't always send

Third Realm.