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.

to Warrior's Paradise, the Farm Line was not under any threat during the Day of Chaos. Sure, a lot of General Stage beasts would

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

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

fine with that?" Shang asked teacher

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

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 and again. If I don't keep pushing myself, my Martial Art will never reach sufficient heights. It has to

teacher Loran shouted. "Your Martial Art is already equivalent to something someone at the Mid General Stage would be

are actively playing with your life!" teacher Loran

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, how can I find the

planning 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 you were a

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

was about to blow up. "You know exactly what his stance

"Then, there you go."

seconds of silence passed as

an agreement," teacher Loran said

didn't know that teacher Olga is also so close to you," Shang said, his

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

frustration,

that we won't teach someone that

it is. Just as expected from teacher Loran,'

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

'Righteousness, stability, conviction.'

judgment and righteousness. A sword should only be drawn if there is no other

is precious, and the respect of the sword blah

morals and promises and being a man

in a way they don't like, but instead of giving

far as to threaten 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 the General

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

you 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

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

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 Stage

the

idealist," Shang said. "I

that supposed to

that you can

Loran's rage exploded. "You are willing to throw away your entire future just so you can

throwing 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 life. I get to