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.

need, there was money to be

wanted to rule a town without being able to defend themselves from Ancestral Beasts.

was where the Security

Agencies were groups of Ancestral Mages that dealt

Beast

arrive very swiftly and get rid of

would only need to survive for

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

hold up for several minutes under the onslaught of an

time for the Security Agency to deal with the

might fail in dealing with an Ancestral Beast or arrive late. In both cases, the town would lose a ton of money

Security

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

Security Agency could bankrupt

contracted to this town

beast's worth on top of the corpse

had never taken longer than 90 seconds to arrive, and

That was insanely fast!

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

their

demanding to protect these couple of

example, got attacked by an Ancestral Beast

only had to keep one Ancestral

alone already showed how much Shang's worth had already

a Named Agent, the Temple of Blood hadn't invested anything

was responsible for an entire town, and an Ancestral Mage was held on

to all the important people, which all consisted of Peak

the High Mages heard about Shang,

Security Agency dealt with Ancestral Beasts, but

Town Lord take care

with a smile. "I personally tested his

believed the

he would just activate the Isolation Barriers, and the Security Agency would eventually

the people, but the old Town Lord was very charismatic. Additionally, he had been the Town Lord of this town

in front of Shang and the

Town Lord officially handed his position over to Shang, who

still not convinced. After all, Shang

a non-Mage defend