Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang entered the eastern wall in the morning.

For the last ten months, he had focused on increasing the power of his body, and he was now at the Peak General Stage.

Today, he would test his power against an Early Commander Stage beast. At least, that was the plan.

At the moment, Shang's body was just as powerful as the body of an Early Commander Stage warrior. In a way, by fighting an Early Commander Stage warrior, Shang was not jumping any levels.

However, the physical powers of beasts had become far more powerful than back when Shang had only been at the Early or Initial General Stage.

There wasn't a single warrior in the world that could defeat a Commander Stage beast alone while being at the same level.

Shang quickly purchased a couple of talismans and jumped down the wall.

Even though Shang had gotten used to running very fast, flying was still something new to him, and he enjoyed the solitude in the air.

A couple of minutes later, Shang landed near the entrance to the Caves.

It was the same one he had used three years ago with Astor, Sarah, and Elver.

Then, Shang sighed.

'I haven't thought about them in forever. Originally, I wanted to make some friends, but then this entire Wilbury thing started. I was so focused on becoming more powerful that I didn't even talk to them once.'

'Friends, huh?' Shang thought as he looked at the sky. 'I think I want friends. I've gotten used to the loneliness, but I still wonder from time to time how it would be to have a friend in this world.'

'But what am I supposed to do with them? I'm being targeted by people way more powerful than me. The last time it happened, the three of them also nearly died.'

'On top of that, what if the enemy wants to use them as hostages? I won't walk into an obvious trap, which means that my hypothetical friend will just lose their life for nothing.'

I should put this entire friend thing on

jumped into

BANG!

ground without any issues. This time,

of the tunnels.

Shang had purchased

with one Amplifier each, which came

with all the other gold he had earned, Shang had the net

having several Adepts come after them. Killing Mages

of General Stage beasts while passing through

saw some spiders, pangolins,

He was running too fast, and he was giving off quite a strong

in the ground that had several tunnels connected to it. The hole was nearly an entire

and go to a different one. In

off the

purchased. A second later,

was specifically designed to allow someone to descend this hole without

Shang silently and lightly landed on

a bit and walked down one of the tunnels. By now, his mind had reached the power of

couple of minutes, Shang took a left, which

went straight, took another

quite steep but not steep enough to

specific tunnel was called the "Commander

the slide's end, one would enter the part of the Caves

warriors. In the Caves, the deeper one went, the stronger the beasts. This meant that, as long as one remained at

the Commander Stage beasts were all mixed. One could meet an Initial Commander Stage beast and then meet a Peak Commander

this

only very rarely used by beasts. Commander Stage beasts had no reason to ascend the slide, and General Stage beasts had no reason to descend it unless they had just reached the Commander

onto the hard slide and slid down with his