Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang exited the academy for the first time on his own. He had only left it once before, which was when teacher Mervin took him to hunt the Pest Cat. Back then, Shang hadn't had the opportunity to look at the city properly during the daytime.

Warrior's Paradise was bustling.

There were people everywhere, and the merchants put up stalls at nearly every corner of the road.

As Shang passed through the streets, he saw quite a big number of General Stage warriors. Most of them wore brown armor made of leather, and, surprisingly, many of them also wore cloaks made of Pest Cat fur.

The reason was obvious. During the night, the Pest Cats were great at hiding themselves, and the black cloaks could also be used by the hunters to hide.

However, in comparison to Shang's cloak, which he wasn't wearing at the moment, their cloaks had been made with far more skill. Most of them wore their cloaks as capes. From what Shang could see, the hunters could pull on a string, which made the cloak pull together at the back, transforming it from a cloak into a cape.

'I should buy one of those later,' Shang thought.

Sadly, while walking through the streets, Shang also noticed something else, and he definitely didn't like that.

He saw several weaker people avoid him. Some mothers were pushing their children away from him, and several men quietly put their hands over their sacks of money.

As soon as Shang noticed that, he got reminded of the words from that one guard near Duke Whirlwind's garden.

'You keep acting like a shifty criminal. If you don't fix that, you will see women protect their children and men protect their money,' Shang remembered with frustration.

Sure enough, that had come to pass.

Shang could only sigh. 'I really should work on that. Otherwise, I will be questioned by nearly every guard I come across. Buying things will probably also be harder outside the academy.'

Shang also saw several Mages in the streets. Most of them simply ignored him, but there were a couple of them that threw Shang some annoyed glances.

If Shang weren't constantly scanning his surroundings out of habit, he wouldn't have noticed these glances.

Those glances represented annoyance and a bit of disgust.

Shang didn't interact with the couple of Mages throwing these glances at him, but his expression became more and more annoyed.

'Most of the Mages I met were very approachable, but obviously, not all of them are like this. There are bound to be some of them that look down on warriors.'

When Shang came to the gates, he saw something quite surprising.

saw someone jump

flat mountain in the middle of the Wasteland. If one jumped off the street, they would fall

the side and

before the person hit the ground, the trajectory of their body suddenly curved toward the front. Then, after around a hundred meters, Shang noticed that they began to

fall had

talisman," a random guy walking on the street shouted to Shang. Obviously,

"Wind talisman?" Shang asked.

It absorbs the wind of the fall and releases it near the ground to stop the fall. Most experienced hunters around

you for explaining," Shang shouted

fun," the guy said as he continued

Instead, he continued looking at

seen the Wasteland during the

It was chaos.

everywhere, and Shang could already see several beasts walking through the Wasteland. On top of that, the Wasteland

the distance from his current position, and he

what Shang was seeing, the land didn't start curving or anything like on

continued until the blue color of the air eventually hid the distant lands, and even

up here, Shang could also see a couple of

fight before, and he was very interested in

impossible to make out anything specific. Shang only saw a couple of hunters jumping

left as he saw

a glimpse of an explosion vanishing a

was someone with long red hair and red robes. Based on context clues, Shang guessed

smoke of the explosion cleared, Shang could see the body of a beast… or at least what remained of

been

bit, Shang noticed something and

looked back

the same beast!'

color and the horns, Shang was sure that

warriors, the other side had simply unleashed one explosion to end

the first time, Shang actually saw the difference between Mages and warriors with his own eyes. He had always heard about

two

explosion he had seen.

would probably end the fight if