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?"

answered as the four of them reached the top of the wall. "There are only a few blacksmiths that can make weapons for Commander Stage warriors and

which is why I joined the Caterpillar Class in the first place. However, what am I supposed to do without a weapon when I reach my goal? That's why I'm focusing on

of his first conversation

Shang Sword was so that he didn't need to blaze two

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

for Shang, which was why he helped him in

to do it

for her since she was comparing herself to Shang, which was

the God, the Dean,

the help of several powerful people," Shang explained.

Sarah asked with annoyance as everyone queued up near the edge

since you probably don't have the luxury of having so many powerful people helping

as she stood in the queue. "So? So what if you have powerful people helping you? Strength is strength. The way you obtained your strength is irrelevant. If we were to fight to the death,

sighed. 'Her outlook is painfully

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

You can talk about these things after we

while Elver only

looked at Astor, who only helplessly

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

the leader is,' Shang thought as he looked at Sarah's back. 'But honestly, it's really

actually had a strong backer, how powerful would

was probably the most hardworking person Shang had ever

as Sarah talked to a guard that had approached her. She handed over a sack of gold,

gave two to each member of the

a minute of waiting,

the edge of the wall, and

could see for kilometers upon

"Follow me," Sarah said.

jumped off

death multiple times, but he still felt nervous when

two seconds later, Shang