Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang actually had to wait for a long time.

It wasn't that the Sweepers were fully booked but that the reward for the mission hadn't reached adequate levels yet.

Every month, the Keeper increased the reward for the mission by ten Grade Six Mana Crystals until one of the Sweepers accepted the mission.

By then, Shang had waited nearly one and a half years.

"Someone accepted the mission," the Keeper informed Shang.

Shang stopped training and stepped out of the room.

Spike Ball was sneering at him while Ice Princess was ignoring everything and waited with her eyes closed.

Shang walked over to the Keeper.

"The location of this branch is secretive, even for Sweepers," she transmitted to him. "You will leave the branch and wait at this location. Make sure that the Sweeper can actually find you."

A map appeared in Shang's mind. The place where he was supposed to be waiting was around 5,000 kilometers away from the branch. This was still within the range of whatever the Temple of Blood was using to scan the surroundings, which meant that Shang could go there without any issues.

Shang nodded and left the branch without saying anything.

He had already received his instructions several months ago. From now on, he was only supposed to follow the commands of the Sweeper.

Shang's survival was in the interest of the Sweeper since they were being paid good money to protect him, and they knew better than him what to do in the wilderness.

Shang left the branch and traveled towards the east.

for over 150 years, and he knew it

Area 23, there were no real Zones in the

were just normal forest from a

comparison to areas in temperate climates on Earth, there

right now was exactly what

area. Just normal trees, normal temperatures, plenty of animals, lots

Zones, even though there were so many Ancestral Beasts, was that releasing one's

one of the Ancestral Beasts decided to transform its surroundings into a land of ice, some other Ancestral Beast that walked by might take

Beasts often didn't even stay in one place. Many of them traveled across the land while considering their immediate surroundings

that still transformed their surroundings, but they

while there were often over a thousand kilometers between Ancestral Beasts. A small area of about a hundred kilometers was

living inside the territory of the Twilight Dusk Family, which was in the middle of the northern part of Aterium. More specifically, Shang was in the southern part of the Twilight Dusk Family's territory. If he went further north, the world would become colder. If he went further south,

Lightning Manor's territory was in the northwestern part of Aterium, and Area

Area 23, Shang traveled east

so many dangers during his

in the Lightning Manor's territory since

been a contractor, he had still technically been a member

he had traveled for over four million kilometers, and

number of close calls had been terrifyingly

so high that Shang even suspected that

Shang had actually joined different groups of Mages that were

might have searched for Shang, they didn't ask the supervising Ancestral Mages of the

a True Path Stage warrior back then, and his capture hadn't been

things were different

couldn't allow himself to come close