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?"

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

a True Path Stage warrior, which is why I joined the Caterpillar Class in the first place. However, what am

words immediately reminded Shang of his first conversation

Sword was so that he didn't need to

exactly that, even if her goal was "only"

this was too much for Shang, which was

wanted to

looked at her with an uncomfortable expression. He felt a bit bad for her since she was

had the help of the

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

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

I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't compare yourself to me since you probably don't have the luxury of having so

at Shang 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, I would still die to you. The

'Her outlook is painfully realistic and

happened over the

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

while Elver only

Astor, who only helplessly

that he actually wasn't the leader of his hunting

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

had a strong backer, how powerful

for Mattheo, Sarah was probably the most hardworking person

into silence as Sarah talked to a guard that had approached her. She handed over a sack of gold, and the guard took out

and gave two to each

of waiting, it was finally

towards the edge

up, and Shang could

"Follow me," Sarah said.

jumped

breath. He had faced death multiple times, but he still felt nervous when he

later,