Sword God in a World of Magic

After Shang left the Curio Trinket, he paused.

'Teacher Niria seems to be really good at bartering. She told me that I should accept no less than 2,000 gold, but as soon as I told the guy that teacher Niria told me what I should accept, he gave me more. Glad I didn't make a direct offer.'

Shang looked at the second beast sack he was carrying. He had decided to mask his gold by putting it into a second beast sack. He didn't want anyone to become suspicious of his wealth. Additionally, Shang had entered the shop with two beast sacks, and he was now exiting with two beast sacks. It would look like his trade had failed.

No one knew that the contents of the second beast sack had changed to pure gold.

After exiting the shop, Shang directly traveled to the academy. An unknown teacher was guarding the gate, and Shang gave them a quick greeting before entering.

Shang directly walked toward the main building. He wanted to put the gigantic sack of gold away first.

Sadly, things didn't go as smoothly as he had expected.

As soon as Shang approached the main building, his eyes narrowed.

He had noticed three boys looking at his beast sacks, and Shang had also noticed that they seemed rather tense. They were all around 16 or 17 years old, which meant that they were well in the Middle Soldier Stage.

Ironically, this was the most dangerous spot to be in.

At that level, the students would no longer belong to the truly weak ones, but they also wouldn't have enough experience to tell if someone was truly dangerous or not. Because of that, the Intermediate Grade had the most fights.

And the grade that suffered the most was the Beginner Grade.

The Intermediate Grade would most often target 14- and 15-year-old students. These students could earn a lot of money, but they were also far weaker and less experienced than the students in the Intermediate Grade.

Because of that, the Beginner Grade was the most horrible grade to be in, thanks to the Intermediate Grade.

However, the Intermediate Grade was walking on a tightrope. They could probably dominate over 90% of all people in the Beginner Grade, but they also wouldn't notice the most powerful 10% of the Beginner Grade.

But these people could tell that Shang was powerful. They didn't know how powerful he was exactly, but they had seen how he had dominated a couple of Early Soldier Stage kids.

This meant that he had to be, at least, in the Middle Soldier Stage. Maybe, he even was in the Late Soldier Stage.

But that's also why they came with three people at once.

On top of that, they were rather confident in taking down Shang.

Why?

Well, there was one familiar face among the people.

It was Shang's neighbor, the one he had met when he had searched for his room.

When that guy heard that Shang was part of the Caterpillar Class, he had smirked and told him that he had entered hell.

What was the reputation of the Caterpillar Class?

Trash.

Why trash?

train in any actual fighting techniques. Every other student trained in several

direct fight, people of the Caterpillar Class nearly always lost against other students. Only the most powerful students in the Caterpillar

that was to be

of the Caterpillar Class were forced to build their own fighting techniques, which meant that their

in techniques created by Commander

refined than some techniques

how did these three people view

for his age, but that was the

For his age.

or 15-year-old have

that, they were three, while

that it would be risky,

and they knew that Shang must have something very interesting in one of

risky, but they

how did they go about

targeting him with an attack. While Shang dealt with one of them, the other two would tear the beast sacks away and run off with the

what they

anything. One was coming from the front while

only attack one of them, and he would be too panicked and surprised to react appropriately. At

had

the effect I was hoping for. I was hoping for them to not bother me, but instead, they

further? Do I actually have to

act like a

'Fine!'

'Let's have a gamble!'

BANG!

floor below Shang's feet shook as he exploded forward with his

just when the three of them began running

were several meters between all of them, and if Shang had remained on the spot, they would have

However, Shang charged forward.

guy at the front

Shang so fast with so much

way faster

Here you go!' Shang thought with gritted teeth

front of Shang only had a body in the Middle Soldier Realm, and he wasn't

on his shoulders. Shang had used his full power while accelerating, and with

and kicked forward with all

a fully-powered attack of someone two levels

essentially an adult releasing a hate-filled kick at

not a

BANG! CRK!

barely managed to put his arms in front of his chest before Shang's