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

obviously a problematic area due to the General Stage beasts from

was problematic due to

the invading species of the Ice Wyvern Zone since they weren't nearly as dangerous to the ecosystem in the forest itself. Yes, the species themselves were still very dangerous to the hunters, but they

northeastern forest was in constant danger due to the Swamp Millipedes and the

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

to the Wild Forest, but most of them only arrived there due to

the Ice Wyvern Zone had plenty of weaker areas. Because of that,

out of the northwestern forest by a more powerful beast or if their

many, but there were a couple. Of course, since there weren't many invading species from the Ice Wyvern Zone, the dangerous area also wasn't as

the south

the northwestern forest was even more dangerous than the southern part

was the reason for

Vanishing Snakes.

Vanishing Snakes killed many young beasts. Many beasts remembered the place of their birth, and they were more likely to have their children at a similar location

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

which meant that this was the primary spawning ground for all kinds

invading species from the Ice Wyvern Zone and two

lesson dragged on, Shang got a certain feeling about the two

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

also learned that both forests were called

forests basically felt like the same area to

Shang saw

gave off a feeling of power and confrontation. There were not that many ambush predators, and there were plenty of

the Life Scarab, also made it feel a bit brighter

many

forest felt

forest felt black

were very different from

last three hours. By now, he also knew several more beasts and knew if they were

enough, there was no beast that

Shang

"Shang, come here."

least,

"Yes, teacher Niria?"

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

over to

SHING!

the token was the