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 the

area due

due to the Ice

dangerous to the ecosystem in the forest itself. Yes, the species themselves were still

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

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

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

didn't need to have their children in the Wild Forest since the Ice Wyvern Zone had plenty of weaker areas. Because of that, only rarely would one see a

General Stage beasts only came to the northwestern forest due to being driven out of the northwestern forest by a more powerful beast or

weren't many invading species from the

south

even more dangerous

was the

Vanishing Snakes.

the place of their birth, and they

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

in the northwestern forest, which meant that this was the primary spawning ground for all kinds of

the Ice Wyvern Zone

dragged on, Shang got a certain feeling about

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

had also learned that both forests were called

that, the two forests basically felt like

by now, Shang saw the

of power and confrontation. There were not that

Life Scarab, also made it feel a bit brighter and more natural. After all, the trees definitely weren't

basically shrouded in a dark and poisonous mist. Shang hadn't seen many powerful beasts walking around in the northeastern forest, but the ones that were there attacked with an

felt brown

northeastern forest felt

very different

hours. By now, he also knew several more beasts and knew if they were on the blacklist or

was no beast that even resembled a Spire

over, Shang

"Shang, come here."

least, he wanted

around. "Yes, teacher Niria?"

already given Shang private lessons, and now she was

over to teacher

SHING!

token was the shadow of