Sword God in a World of Magic

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.

any threat during the Day of Chaos. Sure, a lot of General Stage

danger whatsoever. It even extended to the

blinded people. As long as they were careful not to take on too many beasts at once, they could

fine with that?" Shang asked teacher

one asking you that question!" teacher Loran shouted back in fury. "Are you actually

powerful?" Shang asked back evenly. "I've managed to grow this much by continually pushing myself again and again. If I don't keep pushing myself, my Martial Art will never reach

the Mid General Stage would be able

with your life!" teacher

focused on the battle. As long as

on killing a General Stage beast on your own, 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

nutcase," Shang said with a frown.

like he was about to blow up. "You know exactly

"Then, there you go."

seconds of silence passed as

an agreement," teacher Loran said

that you and teacher Mervin were friends, but I didn't know that teacher Olga is also so close to you," Shang said, his tone not very respectful. That was because

that taught general knowledge about the Zones. She had offered her quota

his eyes, frustration, anger, and unwillingness

we won't teach someone that

it is. Just as expected from

are very idealistic, and they take their ideals way too seriously. Teacher

'Righteousness, stability, conviction.'

is not a mere killing tool but a weapon of judgment and righteousness. A sword should only be drawn if there is no other way

respect of the sword blah blah blah

Loran is always going on about morals and promises and

I'm training in a way they don't like, but instead of giving me my own

me. Telling me that they won't teach me anymore, which basically means that they won't allow me to join the special training class after I reach

I'm 24. I'm an adult.

Training in genuine life-threatening danger? What's the fucking point? There are risks that can be evaluated and risks that can't be

to have a last safety net. I don't actually want to just risk my life like

nobody watching is so that I can unleash all my power. If I keep fighting openly, I can't use my Fire nor

only looked at the

idealist," Shang said. "I do what

supposed to

you can go

Loran's rage exploded. "You are willing to throw away your entire future just so you can gamble with your life?!" he shouted

away," Shang countered with an annoyed tone. "I respect you and teacher Mervin for your power and knowledge. However, at the end of the day, this is