Sword God in a World of Magic

The two of them waited for another two hours. During that time, it was mostly the Town Lord talking and Shang listening.

Shang wasn't the best contributor when it came to conversations.

Eventually, enough time passed that the two of them could leave without any suspicions.

The isolation barrier was deactivated, and the two of them left the room.

The two of them walked towards the entrance of the town, but they were also talking with the powerful people of the town.

Shang was officially the Town Lord now, and he had to introduce himself.

There were two other Archmages in the town, but they would both leave with the previous Town Lord.

This meant that Shang's town was only made up of High Mages and weaker.

In a way, it was just like a Kingdom in Area 23, but with one small difference.

The Zone Beasts weren't peaceful.

What would an Area 23 with aggressive Zone Beasts look like?

Bad.

Now, it was Shang's task to deal with any beast that couldn't be handled by his employees.

Even if an Ancestral Beast attacked.

Of course, Shang wasn't the first person in the world that owned a town while not being in the Ancestral Mage Realm. There had been predecessors, and they had found solutions.

"Sir," one of the Archmages that would leave soon contacted Shang. "Some of my friends are living here. I just want to know how you plan to defend the town from Ancestral Beasts?"

"He's been accepted by our Security Agency," the old Town Lord answered.

The Archmage was quite surprised. "Really? But you said they are very particular about their clients. So many people want to have a contract with them, but they only accept very few people."

"I know, right?" the old Town Lord answered with a smile. "I was also surprised when I contacted them. They just listened for a while, talked with him, and then accepted him."

The other Archmage sighed in relief. "That's good."

There were innumerable ways to make money in this world.

a need, there was money to

able to defend themselves from Ancestral Beasts. That was

the Security

were groups of Ancestral Mages that dealt with

Ancestral Beast attacking

arrive very swiftly

would only need to survive for a couple of minutes, which wasn't necessarily

on the power of the surveillance Magic Circle, one could find an Ancestral Beast while it couldn't

barriers could also hold up for several minutes

time for the Security Agency

quality of the Security Agency, they might fail in dealing with an Ancestral Beast or arrive late. In both cases, the town would lose a ton of money or maybe even get

Security Agencies were

entire corpse, but they would also demand a multiple of the beast's worth on top

expensive Security Agency

contracted to this town was extremely good while

demanded double the beast's worth on top of

than 90 seconds to arrive, and most of the time,

That was insanely fast!

the Temple of Blood, and they only defended their own towns and

much in their interests to see these towns

demanding to

attacked by an Ancestral Beast about three times

keep one Ancestral

showed how much Shang's worth had already

Temple of Blood hadn't invested anything

responsible for an entire town, and an

to all the important people, which all consisted of Peak

heard about Shang, they

with Ancestral Beasts,

this new Town Lord

worry," the old Town Lord said with a smile. "I personally tested his power, and I'm certain that he's more than capable

believed the Town

with the Archbeasts, he would just activate the Isolation

very charismatic. Additionally, he had been the Town Lord of

front of Shang and the

Lord officially handed his position over to

not convinced. After all,

non-Mage