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?"

of the wall. "There are only a few blacksmiths that can make weapons for

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

immediately reminded Shang of his first conversation with

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

sense, Sarah was trying to do exactly that,

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

wanted to

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

the God, the Dean,

is because of the help of several powerful people," Shang explained. "Without their help, I wouldn't even

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

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

helping you? Strength is strength. The way you obtained your strength is irrelevant. If we were to fight to

outlook is painfully realistic

what happened

to start our hunt. You can talk about these things after we return. I won't

Elver only sighed. "Sure

looked at Astor, who only helplessly

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

thought as he looked at Sarah's back. 'But honestly, it's really impressive that Sarah

actually had a strong backer, how

for Mattheo, Sarah was probably the most hardworking person Shang had

a guard that had approached her. She handed over a

and gave two to each member of

a minute of waiting, it was finally

edge of the wall, and

could see for kilometers upon

"Follow me," Sarah said.

she jumped off the

he still felt nervous when he thought about jumping off such a gigantic

two seconds later, Shang