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 them reached the top of the wall. "There are only a few blacksmiths that can make weapons for Commander Stage warriors and

which is why I joined the Caterpillar Class in the first place. However, what am I supposed to do without

of his first

was so that he didn't need to

certain sense, Sarah was trying to do exactly that, even if her

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

wanted to do

only looked at her with an uncomfortable expression. He felt a bit bad for her since she was comparing herself to Shang, which

had the help of the God, the Dean, and

of several powerful people," Shang explained. "Without their help, I wouldn't even feel comfortable reaching

with that?" Sarah asked with annoyance

shouldn't compare yourself 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

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.

'Her outlook is painfully realistic and

said from behind Shang. "So, what happened over the last

are about to start our hunt. You can talk about

Elver only

at Astor, who only

had told Shang that he actually wasn't the leader of his hunting team and that he also wasn't

who the leader is,' Shang thought as he looked at Sarah's back. 'But honestly, it's really impressive that Sarah managed to overtake Astor in power while still focusing

backer, how powerful would she

was probably the most hardworking person Shang

fell into silence as Sarah talked to a guard that had approached her. She handed over

gave two

a minute of waiting, it was

stepped towards the edge of the wall, and Shang looked

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

"Follow me," Sarah said.

jumped off the

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

later,