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 create weapons for True

Class in the first place.

reminded Shang of his first conversation with the

Shang Sword was so that he didn't need to

trying to do exactly that,

that this was too much for Shang, which was why he

wanted to

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

had the help of the God, the Dean, and

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

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

luxury of having so many powerful people helping you. You are already

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

sighed. 'Her outlook is painfully realistic

said from behind Shang. "So, what happened

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

lifted an eyebrow while Elver

looked at Astor, who only helplessly

that he actually wasn't the leader of his

back. 'But honestly, it's really impressive

had a strong backer,

Mattheo, Sarah was probably the most hardworking person Shang

a guard that had approached her. She handed over a

talismans and gave two to each

waiting,

four of them stepped towards the edge of the

Shang could see for kilometers

"Follow me," Sarah said.

she jumped off

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

two seconds later,