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 none that can

is why I joined the Caterpillar Class in the first place. However,

reminded Shang of his first conversation with

God had given Shang Sword was so that

Sarah was trying to do exactly that, even if her goal was

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

Sarah wanted to do it

for her since she was comparing herself to

help of the God, the Dean, and

why I am as strong as I am now is because of the help of several powerful people," Shang explained. "Without their help, I wouldn't

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

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

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, I would still die to you. The source of your

is painfully realistic and

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

answer, but Sarah talked over him before 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

eyebrow while Elver only sighed. "Sure thing,

Astor, who only

wasn't the leader of

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 on

strong backer, how powerful would she be

Mattheo, Sarah was probably the most hardworking person Shang had

Sarah talked to a guard that had approached her. She handed over a sack of

and gave two to each member of

a minute of waiting, it was finally

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

up, and Shang could see for

"Follow me," Sarah said.

she jumped off the

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

two seconds later, Shang also