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?"

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

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

immediately reminded Shang of his first conversation with the

why the God had given Shang Sword was so that he didn't need to blaze two new paths

was trying to do exactly that,

much for Shang, which was why

Sarah wanted to do

a bit bad for her

of the God,

know, the reason why I am as strong as I am now is because of the help of several powerful people,"

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

the luxury of having so many powerful people helping you. You

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

is painfully

what happened over

wanted to answer, but Sarah talked over him before he could 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

eyebrow while Elver

Astor, who only helplessly

leader of his hunting

back. 'But honestly,

a strong backer, how

was probably the

to a guard that had approached her. She handed over a sack of gold, and the guard took out eight

and gave two to each member of

of waiting, it

the edge of

up, and Shang could see for kilometers upon kilometers

"Follow me," Sarah said.

she jumped off

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

seconds later, Shang