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?"

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

the first place. However, what am I supposed to do without a weapon when I reach my goal? That's

reminded Shang of

had given Shang Sword was so that he didn't need to

was trying to do exactly that, even if her goal

God believed that this was too much for Shang,

to do

bit bad for her since she was comparing

help of the God, the Dean, and

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

with that?" Sarah asked with annoyance as everyone queued up near the edge of

you shouldn't compare yourself to me since you probably don't have the luxury of having so many powerful

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

sighed. 'Her outlook is painfully realistic

what happened over the

say anything. "Quiet! We are about to start our hunt. You can talk about these things after we return. I won't allow anyone to dedicate valuable concentration to having a conversation

lifted an eyebrow while Elver only sighed. "Sure

at Astor,

leader of his hunting team and that he also wasn't

back. 'But honestly, it's really impressive that Sarah managed to

actually had a strong backer, how

the most hardworking person Shang had

guard that had approached her. She handed over

talismans and gave two to each

minute of waiting,

stepped towards the edge of the wall, and

was really high up, and Shang could see for kilometers upon kilometers into the

"Follow me," Sarah said.

jumped

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

later, Shang also jumped