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.

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

several teachers of the 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

border was very dangerous since they would have to survive the entire brunt of the wave, but profits blinded people.

you are fine with that?" Shang asked teacher

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

this 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,

already equivalent to something someone at the Mid General Stage would be able to create after a full year of

life!" teacher Loran shouted. "At least let me make sure that

as you are nearby, my mind won't be fully focused on the battle. As long as

hear 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

arguing with a crazy nutcase," Shang said with a frown. "If you're not fine with my

looked like he was about to blow up.

"Then, there you go."

seconds of silence passed as teacher Loran debated

to an agreement," teacher Loran

also so close to you," Shang said,

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

eyes, frustration, anger, and unwillingness

won't teach someone that doesn't value their own life," teacher

there it is. Just as

teacher Mervin are very idealistic, and they take their ideals way too seriously. Teacher Mervin is always going on and on about the path of

'Righteousness, stability, conviction.'

and righteousness. A sword should only be drawn if there is

the respect of the sword blah

going on about morals and

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

anymore, which basically means that they

adult. I can make my

shit? Training in genuine life-threatening danger? What's the fucking

have a last safety net. I don't actually want to just

can't tell you that the reason I want nobody 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

looked at the

an idealist," Shang said.

that supposed to mean?" teacher

can

willing to throw away your entire future just so you

nothing 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 still my