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?"

of the wall. "There are only a few blacksmiths that can make weapons for Commander Stage warriors and

in the first place. However, what am I supposed to do without

of his first

reason why the God had given Shang Sword was so that

was trying to do exactly that, even if her goal

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

to do it

He felt a bit bad for her since she was

help of the God, the Dean,

why I am as strong as I am now is because of the help of several powerful people," Shang explained. "Without

say with that?" Sarah asked with annoyance as everyone

is that you shouldn't compare yourself to me since you probably don't have the luxury of

you? Strength is strength. The way you obtained your strength is irrelevant. If we were

'Her outlook is painfully realistic and

happened over the last

to start our hunt. You can talk about these things after we return. I won't allow anyone to dedicate valuable

eyebrow while Elver only

looked at Astor, who only

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

now it's obvious who the leader is,' Shang thought as he looked at Sarah's back. 'But honestly, it's really impressive that Sarah managed to overtake Astor in power while still

she actually had a strong backer,

Mattheo, Sarah was probably the most hardworking person

had approached her. She handed

gave two to each member of

of waiting,

four of them stepped towards the edge of the wall,

up, and Shang could see

"Follow me," Sarah said.

she jumped off the

faced death multiple times, but he still felt nervous

later,