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.

Farm Line was not under any threat during the Day of Chaos. Sure, a lot

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 between the Wasteland and the

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

are fine with that?" Shang asked teacher

question!" teacher Loran shouted back

myself again and again.

something someone at the Mid General Stage would be

danger is good, but you are actively playing with your life!" teacher Loran shouted. "At least let

battle. As long as you

yourself?!" teacher Loran shouted. "You are planning on killing a General Stage beast on your own, and not only that, no, you also forbid everyone from even watching your

frown. "If you're not fine with my arrangements, go

blow up. "You know exactly

"Then, there you go."

passed as teacher Loran debated

Olga, and I have come to an agreement," teacher Loran said with a quiet but threatening

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 of teacher Loran

general knowledge about the Zones.

his eyes, frustration, anger, and

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

Just as expected from teacher Loran,'

and they take their ideals way too seriously. Teacher Mervin is

'Righteousness, stability, conviction.'

weapon of judgment and righteousness.

precious, and the respect of

going on about morals and promises and being a man and

training in a way they don't like, but instead of giving me my own choice, they want to railroad me

they won't teach me anymore, which basically means that

I'm an adult. I can make

the fucking point? There are risks that can be

train in life-threatening danger, but I always want to have a last safety net. I don't

power. If I keep fighting openly, I can't use my Fire nor my Darkness Affinity. The General

looked at the glaring

an idealist," Shang said.

that supposed to mean?" teacher Loran

means that you can

rage exploded. "You are willing to throw away your entire future

knowledge. However, at the end of