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.

he had still struggled with his persona from Earth, and

was just

see the occasional student pass him. Not

saw them, he felt like he had been

But now...

of the students said with a polite

Sword," the other ones

nodded toward

had even received quite some ridicule from the other students. After all, Shang had been a weakling when it came to

the gates

the gate was always packed, but

walked past

the guards shouted with

nodded at them and simply entered the

need to be subject to searches

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

all, they saw their Duke much more often than the mysterious

reached the marketplace, his eyes fell

was the place where I sold the General

had run the shop

shop also reminded Shang

Astor, Sarah, and Mattheo

what happened to

had

Resource

the academy, some youngster

was his name,

a couple of seconds before continuing toward

remembered all the

how Shang had purchased the

had told Shang that the ore had come from the

Zone, Thunder Horse Zone, Volcano Wyrm Zone. That was the

the current Shang, this little bit

the gates of the academy and

of the academy to inspect all the beast corpses, which

most of the