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?"

as the four of them reached the top of the wall. "There are only a few blacksmiths that can make weapons for Commander Stage warriors and none that can create weapons for True Path

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

reminded Shang of his first conversation with the

so that he didn't need to blaze two new paths at

exactly that, even if her goal was "only" the True Path

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

wanted to

felt a bit bad for her since she was

had the help of the God, the Dean,

as I am now is because of the help of several powerful people," Shang explained.

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

the luxury of having so many powerful

Shang as she stood in the queue. "So? So what if you have powerful people helping you? Strength is strength. The way you

sighed. 'Her outlook is

"So, what happened over the

can talk about these things after we return. I won't allow anyone to dedicate valuable concentration to having a

lifted an eyebrow while Elver only sighed.

at Astor, who only

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

he looked at Sarah's back. 'But honestly, it's really

actually had a strong backer, how powerful

Mattheo, Sarah was probably the most hardworking person Shang

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

talismans and gave two to each

waiting,

four of them stepped towards the edge of the wall, and Shang

high up, and Shang could see for kilometers upon kilometers into

"Follow me," Sarah said.

then, she jumped off the

multiple times, but he still

two seconds later, Shang also jumped