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.

there was money

rule a town without being able to defend themselves

where the Security Agencies

Agencies were groups of Ancestral Mages

Beast attacking

arrive

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

the power of the surveillance Magic Circle, one could find

could also hold up for several minutes under the onslaught of an Ancestral

for the Security Agency to

with an Ancestral Beast or arrive late. In both cases, the town would lose a ton of

good Security Agencies

they would also

Security Agency

this town was extremely good while also being quite

beast's worth on top of the corpse while also being extremely

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

That was insanely fast!

a hidden branch of the Temple of Blood,

much in their interests to see these towns

wasn't that demanding to protect these

example, got attacked by an Ancestral Beast

had to keep one Ancestral Mage

worth had already changed in

the Temple of Blood hadn't invested anything in

and an Ancestral Mage was held on

Town Lord introduced Shang to all the important

heard about Shang, they were

the Security Agency dealt with Ancestral Beasts,

this new Town Lord take care of

"I personally tested

not everyone believed the Town

give him a chance," the old Town Lord said. "Even if he couldn't deal with the Archbeasts, he would just activate the Isolation Barriers, and the

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

gathered in front of Shang and the old Town

Town Lord officially handed his position over to

were still not convinced. After all, Shang

non-Mage defend