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

south was obviously a problematic area due to the

part was problematic due to the Ice

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

danger due to the Swamp

danger to the environment in the northwestern forest was

the Ice Wyvern Zone sometimes came to the Wild Forest,

since the Ice Wyvern Zone had plenty of weaker areas.

due to being driven out of the northwestern forest by a

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

south was

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

was the

Vanishing Snakes.

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

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

Snakes weren't in the northwestern forest, which meant that this was the primary spawning ground for all kinds of beasts that usually lived

an hour about invading species from the Ice Wyvern Zone and two hours

dragged on, Shang got a certain feeling about

identical. After all, they had the same

learned that both forests

forests basically felt like the

by now, Shang saw the

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

a bit brighter and more natural.

the northeastern forest was basically shrouded in a dark and poisonous mist. Shang hadn't seen many powerful beasts walking around in

northwestern forest felt

felt

two areas were very different from each

now, he also knew several more beasts and

beast that even resembled a Spire

the lesson was over, Shang

"Shang, come here."

at least, he

"Yes, teacher Niria?" he

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

over to

SHING!

hand. On the token was