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.

with his persona from Earth, and this world had been new

was just

pass

he had been one of

But now...

the students said with a

Count Sword," the

nodded toward them in

some ridicule from the other students. After all, Shang had

walked to the gates of Warrior's

gate was always packed, but during the middle of the day, the

simply walked past

Count Sword," the guards shouted

nodded at them and

Count, he didn't need to be subject to searches and could

nearly everyone politely walked out of

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

his

where I

run the shop had been unfathomably more

about the shop also

Teacher Niria, Astor, Sarah, and Mattheo in

wonder what happened

He had never been inside the

National Resource Trading

walked through the academy, some youngster from exactly this trading firm had sent his

was his name,

looked at the building for a couple of seconds before continuing

the merchants that had sold all kinds of

had purchased the Fire

told Shang that the ore had come from the distant

Thunder Horse Zone, Volcano Wyrm Zone. That was the

the current Shang, this little bit of distance seemed

walked through the gates of the academy and saw many students training

the basement of the academy to

most of the students noticed him and