Silence.

Shang was waiting in silence along with several other warriors.

Some of the hunters knew Shang since he had visited the Hunting Guild several times by now.

After a full year, Shang had grown by quite a bit. By now, he had reached 180cm, the average height of men in the western hemisphere on Earth. Of course, Shang wasn't fully done growing, but he also wouldn't grow by much more anymore.

Shang guessed that he would essentially end up just a bit below 190cm in a year or two.

Sword had also grown. Since Shang had grown by a bit, Sword had decided to elongate as well so that Shang wouldn't need to change his fighting style.

According to what Sword had said, it could change its size by a little bit, but it needed new ore every time. On top of that, the ore had to be higher ranked than what it was currently made out of.

Over the last year, Shang had earned a lot of money, which he had used to upgrade Sword to the Late General Stage. He was still missing a lot of money before he could attempt to upgrade Sword to another level since the prices started to skyrocket at the Peak General Stage.

All of the hunters around Shang were in the General Stage, making Shang an oddity amongst their ranks.

Originally, a couple of hunters complained since they saw Shang as a liability, but the words of a couple of teachers shut them up.

Since many teachers specialized in politics or killing other humans, they didn't join the defense of Warrior's Paradise. In order to defend Warrior's Paradise, one had to be confident in taking down Commander Stage beasts, which was very different from fighting other warriors at the Commander Stage.

Because of that, sadly, most of the teachers weren't powerful enough to be a good help in the defense.

However, here, they were a great help!

So what if they weren't great hunters? The beasts were literally an entire Stage below them.

Of course, the teachers mostly acted as a last line of defense and would only get involved if a beast managed to slip past the wall of hunters.

There were also a couple of Adepts in the mix, but they would act as a secondary line of defense.

The hunters would constantly fight.

The Adepts would kill the beasts that slipped past the hunters.

The teachers would kill the beasts that slipped past the Adepts.

Why was the defense structured in this way?

By the hunters' choice.

threat during the Day of Chaos. Sure, a lot of General Stage beasts would charge right at them, but they were only General Stage

Academy defending this place, the Farm Line wasn't in any danger

entire brunt of the wave, but profits blinded people. As long as they were careful not to take on too many beasts at once, they

fine with that?" Shang

the one asking you that question!" teacher Loran shouted back in fury. "Are you actually insane?! No sane person

this much by continually pushing myself again and again. If I don't keep pushing myself, my Martial Art will

Martial Art is already equivalent to something someone at the Mid General Stage would be able to create

actively playing with your life!" teacher Loran shouted. "At least let me make sure that

thing, teacher Loran," Shang said. "As long as you are nearby, my mind won't be fully focused on the battle. As long as you are watching me, I will never feel in danger. If I don't get pushed to the

and not only that, no, you also forbid everyone from even watching your battle! From the very first day you arrived at the Academy, I knew that you were a

with a frown. "If you're not fine

blow up. "You know exactly what his

"Then, there you go."

of silence passed as teacher Loran debated with

an agreement," teacher

close to you,"

that taught general knowledge about the Zones. She had

narrowed his eyes, frustration, anger, and unwillingness in his

the agreement that we won't teach someone that doesn't value their own life," teacher Loran

is. Just as expected from

ideals way too seriously. Teacher

'Righteousness, stability, conviction.'

sword is not a mere killing tool but a weapon of judgment and righteousness. A sword should only be drawn if there is

is precious, and the respect of the sword

going on about morals and promises and being

way they don't like, but instead of giving me my own choice, they want to railroad me into something

basically means that they won't allow me to

an adult. I can make

life-threatening danger? What's the fucking point?

want to have a

watching is so that I can unleash all my power. If I keep fighting openly, I can't use my Fire nor my Darkness Affinity. The General Stage beast will turn me into

Loran only looked at the glaring Shang for

idealist," Shang said.

to mean?" teacher

means that you can

throw away your entire future just so you can

respect you and teacher Mervin for your power and knowledge. However, at the end of the day, this is still my life. I

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