Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang walked on a road towards a big city in the middle of the day. The side of the road led into thick forests, which were filled with weaker beasts.

A couple of people had already passed him on his journey, but they didn't talk to him.

Shang had seen plenty of people riding on beasts. This seemed to be nothing unusual in the Spirit Spring Kingdom as even very weak merchants rode on beasts.

Eventually, Shang reached the gates of the city. The gates were made of wood, but Shang could tell that this wasn't normal wood. The wood the gates were made out of was probably as powerful as Commander Stage ore.

Several guards were checking the Space Rings of the people that wanted to enter the city, and quite a long queue had already formed.

Shang only stood at the end of the queue, not looking at anyone else.

The people around Shang threw careful glances at him.

For some reason, they didn't feel comfortable being near him.

However, they didn't want to be rude. So, they didn't comment.

Shang waited for several minutes in the queue until it was his turn.

"Space Rings," the woman on a large wolf ordered as she saw Shang.

The guards of this city were Spiriters, and they used their beasts to keep watch over everything.

Grrrr!

At that moment, the wolf the woman was riding on started to growl at Shang.

The Spiriter was quite surprised when she saw her beast's reaction and connected with it mentally.

Of course, the beasts weren't very smart, and they could only transmit primitive feelings toward their Spiriters.

Right now, the wolf was transmitting a feeling that identified Shang as an enemy.

The wolf wanted to kill Shang.

When the Spiriter felt these feelings come from her beast, her eyebrows furrowed, and she looked at Shang.

"What is your business here?" she asked with a chilly tone.

"I want to buy a map," Shang answered evenly.

The Spiriter's eyes narrowed. "What kind of map?"

"Just a general one of the Spirit Spring Kingdom," he said. "As you might have noticed, I'm not from here."

After Shang said these words, the Spiriter took a closer look at Shang.

rather weak, but the threat she felt

quickly knew what was going

a warrior?" she

want to get back to the

had a perpetual Truth Verification Magic Circle active, and the Spiriter

eyes only

why her beast saw

any

"Yes," Shang answered.

and Shang could

she only glared

ordered again with an icy

out his Space Ring and

the contents of the Space Ring, she had to control herself not to destroy it and attack Shang right then and

Corpses.

corpses

harmony with the beasts.

Spiriter, seeing a Space Ring filled with beast corpses was like seeing

but

she said with a controlled

nodded and

this moment, the Spiriter felt frustrated, helpless,

people of the Spirit Spring Kingdom were forbidden from killing beasts without a

new King and joined the war, people from the Skythunder Kingdom appeared in the Spirit Spring

them, killing

a beast was like picking up gold

after a humongous outrage went through

decided to only send warriors and Mages to the Spirit Spring Kingdom if it

be present, the warriors and Mages would be allowed to live similarly to how they lived

included hunting

Spirit Spring Kingdom was unusual,

Kingdom saw a warrior, they

the warriors were there to protect them from the Magic Purity Kingdom, but they

some kind of ogre that protected a village

hated the ogre, but

city, he saw

that pulled carriages, smaller beasts that used their fire to cook food or melt ore, small flying beasts that delivered things from building to building, and there were even bigger beasts that patrolled the streets

Skythunder Kingdom used warriors to keep the public in order, the Spirit Spring Kingdom used

through the streets, one beast after the other

Anger.

Enmity.

Fear.

course, the people noticed the beasts' actions, and they grew just as wary of

had now become

Step. Step. Step.