Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang left the Caves for the first time in a long while.

He jumped out of the hole in the ground and appeared in the Wasteland.

At the moment, it was in the middle of the day, and plenty of warriors and Mages were running around, earning money.

In comparison to 30 years ago, the number of beasts Shang could see had been drastically reduced.

With the increased power of the average warrior, they didn't need to form teams anymore, essentially multiplying the number of hunters.

However, in order to stop the hunters from eradicating the entire beast population, several new rules had to be put into place.

For example, hunting in the Caves now required a hefty entrance fee. Additionally, more beasts in the Wild Forest had been put on the Blacklist so that they could grow up and be hunted in the Wasteland.

The Day of Chaos had also become much more manageable due to the reduced number of beasts.

But when Shang looked at Warrior's Paradise, it looked just like always.

It was still as imposing as back then.

In fact, it had even grown a bit in the past decades. The Earth Mages slowly widened the plateau Warrior's Paradise was on, allowing it to expand.

In the past three decades, it had probably gotten wider by around 200 meters.

Shang traveled towards the street that led to Warrior's Paradise and jumped.

With a bit of finesse and control, Shang could essentially run up the two-kilometer high road and easily land on it. He didn't even need to use his Blasts or a Talisman.

As soon as Shang landed on the road, he looked at the Wasteland again.

Memories entered his mind, and he remembered the first time he had seen this view.

Back then, he had seen how the warriors and Mages managed to jump up to Warrior's Paradise with their Talismans, and he also remembered how intimidated he had been when he had seen the Mages blast the beasts apart with ease.

Shang had been around 15 years old at that point.

Now, he was 47.

32 years had passed.

still struggled with his persona from Earth,

it was

see the occasional student pass him. Not

them, he felt like he had been one of them not too long

But now...

of the students

Count Sword," the

nodded toward them

of them, and he had even received quite some ridicule from the other students. After all,

to the gates of Warrior's

and evenings, the gate was always packed, but during the middle of the day, the traffic was

simply walked

Count Sword," the guards shouted with respectful

and simply

didn't need to be

Shang walked along the streets, nearly everyone politely walked out of his way and greeted

attraction to these people. After all, they saw their Duke much more often than the

the marketplace, his eyes fell

the place where I sold the

Adept that had run the shop

about the shop also reminded

haven't seen Teacher Niria, Astor, Sarah, and Mattheo

wonder what happened to

turned to leave, he noticed another building. He had

National Resource Trading

youngster from exactly this trading firm had

was

the building for a couple of seconds

remembered all the merchants that had sold all kinds of things

Shang had purchased the Fire Ore from one

merchant had told Shang that the ore had come from the distant Volcano Wyrm Zone, which was why it had been so

Volcano Wyrm Zone. That was the path

away, but for the current Shang,

through the gates of the academy and

to meet Jerald in the basement of the academy to inspect

as Shang entered the academy, most of the students noticed