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.

struggled with his persona from Earth,

was just

the occasional student pass him. Not everyone visited all the

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

But now...

one of the students said with a

Sword," the other

toward

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

the gates of Warrior's

the mornings and evenings, the gate was always packed, but

simply walked past

Count Sword," the guards shouted with

at them and simply

be subject to searches and could

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

was sort of an attraction to these people. After all, they saw

reached the marketplace, his eyes

I

that had run the shop had been unfathomably

also reminded Shang of

Teacher Niria, Astor, Sarah,

what happened to

turned to leave, he noticed another building. He had never been inside the

National Resource

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

Gerbon was his name,

a couple of seconds

he thought about the trading firm, he also remembered all the merchants that

how Shang had purchased the Fire Ore from one of

ore had come from the distant Volcano Wyrm Zone,

Adamantite Behemoth Zone, Thunder Horse Zone, Volcano Wyrm Zone. That was the path

away, but for the current Shang, this

of the academy and saw many students

Jerald in the basement of the academy to inspect all the beast corpses, which was why he was

as Shang entered the academy, most