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.

Sure, a lot of General Stage beasts would charge right at them, but they were only

Warrior Academy and several teachers of the Mage Academy defending this place, the Farm Line wasn't in any danger whatsoever. It even extended to the fact that a lot of teams of hunters defended the border

of the wave, but profits blinded people. As long as

are fine with that?"

that question!" teacher Loran shouted back in fury. "Are you actually insane?! No sane person would do

do you think I managed to become this powerful?" Shang asked back evenly. "I've managed to grow this much by continually pushing myself again

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

good, but you are actively playing with your life!" teacher

long as you are watching me, I will never feel in danger. If I don't get pushed

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 frown. "If you're not fine with

he was about to blow up. "You know exactly

"Then, there you go."

of silence passed as teacher Loran debated

an agreement,"

I didn't know that teacher Olga is also so close to you," Shang said, his tone not very respectful. That was because he knew what the new tone

general knowledge about the Zones. She had offered

his eyes, frustration,

came to the agreement that we won't teach someone

it is. Just as

their ideals way too

'Righteousness, stability, conviction.'

judgment and righteousness. A

of the sword blah blah blah

on about morals and promises and being a

we have it. I'm training in a way they don't like, but instead of giving me my own choice, they want to railroad me into something

which basically means that they won't allow me to

24. I'm an adult. I can make my own

think I actually believe that shit? Training in genuine life-threatening danger? What's the fucking point? There are risks that can be evaluated and risks that

danger, but I always want to have a last safety net. I

reason I want nobody watching is so that I can unleash all my power. If I keep fighting

the glaring Shang for several

idealist," Shang said. "I do what

supposed to

can go

your entire future just so

for your power and knowledge. However, at the end of the day, this is