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.

Chaos. Sure, a

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

would have to survive the entire brunt of the wave, but profits blinded people. As long as they

you are fine with that?"

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

again and again. If I

Loran shouted. "Your Martial Art is already equivalent to something someone at the Mid General Stage would be able to create after a full year of research! You're only at

but you are actively playing with your life!" teacher Loran shouted. "At least let me

that's the 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 limit,

only that, no, you also forbid everyone from even watching your battle! From the very first day you

said with a frown. "If you're

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

"Then, there you go."

of silence passed as teacher Loran debated

have come to an agreement," teacher Loran said with a quiet

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 he knew what the new

teacher that taught general knowledge about the Zones. She had offered her quota to Shang this

his eyes, frustration, anger, and unwillingness in his

to the agreement that we won't teach someone that doesn't value their

it is. Just as

way too seriously. Teacher Mervin is always going on and on about the path

'Righteousness, stability, conviction.'

and righteousness. A sword should

precious, and the respect of the sword blah

is always going on about morals and promises and being a

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

me that they won't teach me anymore, which basically means that they won't allow me to join the special training class

I'm an adult. I can

life-threatening danger? What's the

danger, but I always want to have a last safety net. I don't actually want

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

Loran only looked at the

idealist," Shang said. "I do

supposed to mean?"

that you can

exploded. "You are willing to throw away your entire future just so you can gamble with your life?!"

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