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.

around him was rather weak, but

quickly knew what

a warrior?"

want to get back to the Skythunder Kingdom. I've been

active, and the

her eyes only became

why her beast

you kill any

"Yes," Shang answered.

her eyes, and Shang could feel detest and

of seconds, she only glared at

again

Space Ring and threw it

the contents of the Space Ring, she had to control

Corpses.

corpses and beast

worked in harmony with the beasts. Especially the Spiriters

Space Ring filled with beast corpses was like seeing a Space Ring filled with human

teeth in anger and hatred, but she threw

she said with a

and passed

the Spiriter felt frustrated, helpless, and

of the Spirit Spring Kingdom were forbidden from killing beasts without a good reason.

and joined the war, people from the Skythunder Kingdom appeared in the

them, killing beasts was

picking up gold off

years of diplomacy and negotiations took place after a humongous outrage went through the Spirit

to only send warriors and Mages

warriors and Mages would be allowed to live similarly to how they lived in

included hunting beasts

Spring Kingdom was unusual, but it

the Spirit Spring Kingdom saw a warrior, they would

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

compared to some kind of ogre that protected a village but walked into the village to eat a child from time

hated the ogre, but

Shang stepped into the city, he saw a ton of

bigger beasts 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

the public

one beast after the other looked at

Anger.

Enmity.

Fear.

beasts' actions, and they grew just as wary

street, which had just been lively, had now become very silent as everyone

Step. Step. Step.