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?"

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 Stage

joined the Caterpillar Class in the first place.

immediately reminded Shang of his first conversation with the

was so that he didn't need to blaze

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

was too much for Shang,

wanted to do

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

had the help of the God, the Dean,

the reason why I am as strong as I am now is because of the help of several powerful people," Shang explained. "Without their help,

are you trying to say with that?" Sarah asked with annoyance as everyone queued up near the

you 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

helping you? Strength is strength. The way you obtained your strength is irrelevant. If we

outlook is painfully

what happened over the last year? I want to

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

an eyebrow while Elver

looked at Astor, who

that he actually wasn't the leader of his hunting team

who the leader is,' Shang thought as he looked at Sarah's back. 'But

a strong backer, how powerful

Sarah was probably the most hardworking person

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

talismans and gave two

a minute of waiting, it was finally

of them stepped towards the edge of the

and Shang could see for kilometers

"Follow me," Sarah said.

jumped

but he still felt nervous when he thought about jumping off such a

seconds later, Shang also