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?"

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

joined the Caterpillar Class in the first place.

Shang of his first

was so that

do exactly that, even if

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

to do

bad for her since she was comparing herself to Shang, which was not a fair comparison at

of the God, the Dean, and

strong as I am now is because of the help of several powerful

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

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

"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,

outlook is painfully realistic and

"So, what happened over the last year? I want

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 valuable concentration to having a conversation

lifted an eyebrow while Elver only sighed.

at Astor, who only helplessly

wasn't the leader of his

he looked at Sarah's back. 'But honestly, it's really impressive that Sarah managed to overtake Astor in power

actually had a strong backer, how powerful

probably the most hardworking person

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

took the talismans and gave two

of waiting, it was finally their

of them stepped towards the edge of the wall,

was really high up, and Shang could

"Follow me," Sarah said.

then, she jumped

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

seconds later,