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 off

to remember that Warrior's Paradise was on top of a huge flat mountain in the middle of the

the side

a hundred meters, Shang

reason, their fall had been

guy walking on the street shouted to Shang. Obviously, he had noticed that this was the first time Shang had seen something

"Wind talisman?" Shang asked.

fall and releases it near the ground to stop the fall. Most experienced hunters around

for explaining," Shang shouted

Have fun," the guy said as

walking. Instead, he continued

truly seen the Wasteland during

It was chaos.

and Shang could already see several beasts walking through the Wasteland. On top

the distance from his current position, and he

land didn't start curving

see that it continued and continued until the blue color of the air eventually

here, Shang could also see a

General Stage warrior fight before, and he

from this distance, it was basically impossible to make out anything specific. Shang only saw a

left

a glimpse of an explosion vanishing a

long red hair and red robes. Based on context clues, Shang guessed that they

the smoke of the explosion cleared, Shang could see the body

had been

looking at the corpse for a bit, Shang noticed

he looked back at

the same

and the horns, Shang was sure that the two parties had fought the same kind of

one side was still fighting with three warriors, the other side had simply unleashed

saw the difference between Mages and warriors with his own eyes. He had always heard about it, but he had never truly witnessed

the two parties fighting each

seen.

single explosion would probably end the fight if the hunters