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?"

wall. "There are only a few blacksmiths that can make weapons for Commander Stage warriors and none that can create weapons

the first place. However, what

reminded Shang of his first conversation

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

Sarah was trying to do exactly that, even if her goal was "only" the True Path

too much for Shang,

wanted to

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

had the help of the God, the Dean, and Duke

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

Sarah asked with annoyance as everyone queued

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

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 to fight

outlook is painfully realistic and

"So, what happened over the last year? I

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 about irrelevant topics in my

lifted an eyebrow while Elver

looked at Astor, who only helplessly

leader of his

it's obvious who the leader is,' Shang thought as he looked at Sarah's back. 'But honestly, it's really impressive

a strong backer, how

for Mattheo, Sarah was probably the most hardworking person

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

and gave two to each member of

of waiting, it was

of them stepped towards the edge

up, and Shang could see for kilometers

"Follow me," Sarah said.

then, she jumped off the

multiple times, but he still felt nervous when he

two seconds later, Shang also jumped