Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang talked with Viera for the next hour. She was rather bubbly all the time, but when she talked about her goal in life, her demeanor started to subtly change.

"Beast defenders are selfish people that are only interested in their own gains," Viera said with a snort.

In her mind, beast defenders were people that wanted to keep all the beasts alive.

"They only want to keep the beasts alive because they are powerful enough to resist the normal beasts. They can kill a Pest Cat. And since beasts are worth a lot of money, they want to keep their method of making money alive. Beast defenders are not thinking about the good of the normal people."

"They are selfish and entitled!" Viera said with some anger.

She had controlled her voice, but Shang could feel a lot of hatred coming from her.

This was something she felt very strongly about.

"And how are people supposed to become more powerful without the beasts' resources?" Shang asked. "Mana Sources are a necessity."

Viera snorted again. "Mages can create Mana Sources artificially. They just don't give these Mana Sources to just anyone since it's expensive."

"They can?" Shang asked in surprise.

Viera nodded. "Of course. Do you think over the last thousands of years, the Mages never tried to create something like Mana Sources? Of course they did!"

"Okay," Shang said. "What about the beasts that don't hunt humans?"

"Doesn't matter," Viera answered. "Beasts can change any second. Some beasts that have been peaceful for their entire lives can suddenly have a change of heart and kill a human. It's not a new concept."

"If we want to protect our children and the weaker people, we have to get rid of all the beasts! There simply isn't any other way!" Viera said.

Shang could feel quite some hatred emanating from Viera.

"Well, if you think so," Shang said, trying to get away from the topic.

"Yes, I think so," Viera said as she crossed her arms. "What do you think about this?"

to answer that question. Viera was very adamant about defending her viewpoint, and if Shang disagreed too much, their freshly created disciple relationship might completely break

horse in the race,"

horse in the race?" Viera repeated in confusion. "What

phrase isn't common in

to me. For my goal, I don't need the beasts, but I

care?" Viera

their life. My life is my life. I live

looked with a bit of

had no idea how she would

now, Shang could understand why Soran wasn't interested in starting a relationship with Viera. Some of her views were

to help and trust people, and that sentiment extended to beasts. In Soran's mind, killing all the beasts was probably something way too

that's fine then," Viera said as

a bit surprised, but not much. Her demeanor had more than once taken unpredictable

fine with that?"

shouldn't I be?"

that beast defenders are

beasts," Viera said. "You said you are ambivalent to the topic. So, if I

Shang said with

So, everything's alright!" Viera said with a bright

said

Shang didn't answer Sword.

talking,

door open, a fire

His first Mage!

over and saw

hair. She wore light blue robes, and she carried two small sticks with crystals

used as weapons until the Mage could finally afford a Focus. They obviously weren't as great as Focuses, but they

bit, Shang was surprised that his opponent was a girl, but he quickly realized that there

his opponents had been men in the past. Women

wasn't the case when it came to Mages. There were a lot of female Mages. After all, physical ability didn't matter when it came

the Adept asked shyly.

scary-looking