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 none that can create weapons for

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

of his

reason why the God had given Shang Sword was so that he

do exactly that, even if her goal was "only"

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

wanted to do

a bit bad for her since she was comparing herself to Shang, which

the help of the God,

the help of several powerful people,"

say with that?" Sarah asked with annoyance as everyone queued up

probably don't have the luxury of having so many powerful people helping you. You are already better than me if

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

'Her outlook is painfully realistic

happened over the last year? I want to

"Quiet! We are about to start our hunt. You can talk about these things after we

while Elver only sighed.

looked at Astor, who only

leader of

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

a strong backer, how powerful would

probably the most hardworking person Shang had ever

had approached her. She

two to each member of the

a minute of waiting,

edge of the

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

"Follow me," Sarah said.

she jumped off the

had faced death multiple times, but he still felt nervous when he thought about

later, Shang