Sword God in a World of Magic

Everyone followed after Sarah with different expressions.

Shang was annoyed.

Astor was laughing.

Elver only helplessly smiled from the side.

The four of them passed some guards as they climbed the wall at the eastern side of Warrior's Paradise. Shang could also see several other teams in front and behind them, and he also noticed that basically all of them were at the General Stage.

The three of them caught up with Sarah while they were still climbing the wall.

"You seem rather annoyed at meeting me again," Shang commented from behind Sarah.

"Yes," Sarah answered directly, "but I'm not annoyed at you but at myself. Seeing your current power shows me that I have been slacking off for the last year. I thought that I had already put my everything into becoming more powerful, but apparently, I was mistaken."

'She doesn't sound like she's lying,' Shang thought.

"Why aren't you in the General Stage grade in the academy?" Shang asked. "With your hardworking personality, you should have easily been accepted."

"I declined," Sarah answered.

This surprised Shang.

"Why?"

"Because joining the General Stage grade means focusing completely on becoming a Commander Stage warrior, and that is not what I want," Sarah said.

"Then, what do you want?" Shang asked.

"I want to become a powerful blacksmith."

Shang raised an eyebrow. "Is there a specific reason behind that decision?"

the four of them reached the top of the wall. "There are only a few blacksmiths that can make

the Caterpillar Class in the first place. However, what am I supposed to do without a weapon when I reach my

immediately reminded Shang of his first

Sword was so that he didn't need

sense, Sarah was trying to do exactly that, even if her

this was too much for Shang, which was why he helped him in

to

expression. He felt a bit bad for her since she was comparing herself to Shang, which

of the God, the Dean, and

I am as strong as I am now is because of the help of several powerful people," Shang explained. "Without their help, I wouldn't even feel comfortable reaching

are you trying to say with that?" Sarah asked with annoyance as everyone queued up near the edge of

that you shouldn't compare yourself to me since you probably don't have the luxury of having so many powerful people helping you. You are already better than me if I didn't have so much

in the queue. "So? So what if you have powerful people helping you? Strength is strength. The way you obtained your strength is

sighed. 'Her outlook is

Shang. "So, what happened over the last year? I

our hunt. You can talk about these things after we return. I won't allow anyone to dedicate valuable concentration to having a conversation about irrelevant

lifted an eyebrow while Elver only

at Astor,

Shang that he actually wasn't the leader of his hunting team

looked at Sarah's back. 'But honestly, it's really impressive that Sarah managed to overtake Astor in power while still focusing on

strong backer, how powerful would

was probably the most hardworking person Shang had

silence as Sarah talked to a guard that had approached her. She handed over a sack

and gave two to each

a minute of waiting, it was finally their

stepped towards the edge of

high up, and Shang could see for kilometers upon kilometers into

"Follow me," Sarah said.

jumped off the

times, but he still felt nervous when he

later, Shang also