Sword God in a World of Magic

Astor said his goodbyes and left.

Shang wanted to talk with Mattheo, but Mattheo had already left while Shang was talking with Astor.

Before the lesson began, Mattheo had said that his father owned the Warrior's Academy. Together with his father's focus on Magic, Shang was already pretty certain who Mattheo's father was.

It was probably Duke Whirlwind.

Shang didn't think that Mattheo was the dean's son. After all, the dean probably wouldn't have pushed Mattheo so hard into the path of a Mage.

Sadly, Shang couldn't confirm his guess since Mattheo had already left.

After the lesson, Shang wasn't certain what he should do right now. He had finally reached his goal of upgrading his weapon, and he had finally managed to learn more about his swordsmanship.

Now, he could fully focus on learning.

Without a good weapon, Shang had been in a troublesome situation since he hadn't been able to work on his techniques.

'Well, I guess it's time to learn. At the moment, I don't need money or Contribution Points, and I also don't need to train against beasts.'

'For now, I should focus on accumulating knowledge, on my techniques, and on fighting other humans.'

'Seems like I'm going to visit a couple of lessons.'

Shang left the training field and went to his room to check the schedule. There was always a small break between classes for exactly this reason.

'Another lesson for beast knowledge starts soon,' Shang read.

'Alright, let's start the learning process!'

Shang quickly left his room and entered the meeting room. A couple of students looked at him with weird expressions, but they didn't interact with him.

Teacher Niria arrived rather quickly and began her lesson.

"Foreign beasts in the northwestern forest," she announced.

The last time Shang had been here, teacher Niria had talked about foreign beasts in the northeastern forest.

It seemed like the northwestern forest also had foreign species.

Teacher Niria explained that there were two problematic areas.

south and

due to

part was problematic due to the

invading species of the Ice Wyvern Zone since they weren't nearly as dangerous to the ecosystem in

constant danger due to the Swamp

comparison to that, the only real danger to the environment in the northwestern forest was the

from the Ice Wyvern Zone sometimes came to the Wild Forest, but most

the Ice Wyvern Zone had plenty of weaker areas. Because of that, only rarely would one see a beast from the Ice

out

there were a couple. Of course, since there weren't many invading species from the

south

of the northwestern forest was even more dangerous than the southern part

the

Vanishing Snakes.

their birth, and they were more likely to have their children at a similar location to where

not many beasts managed to leave the northeastern forest before reaching the General Stage, which meant fewer

that this was the primary spawning ground for all kinds of beasts that

Ice

lesson dragged on, Shang got a certain feeling about the

identical. After all, they had the same trees, and they both had Pest

both forests were called

forests basically felt like the

Shang saw the

of power and confrontation. There were not that many ambush predators, and there were

made it feel a bit brighter and

basically shrouded in a dark and poisonous mist. Shang hadn't seen many

forest felt brown or

felt black or

areas were very different from each

a lot over the last three hours. By now, he also knew several more beasts and knew if they were on

was no beast that even resembled

the lesson was over, Shang went back to

"Shang, come here."

least, he wanted

around. "Yes, teacher Niria?"

students were confused and looked at each other. Teacher Niria had already given Shang private lessons, and now she was calling

over to

SHING!

teacher Niria's hand. On the token was the shadow of a gigantic eagle and a blacked-out