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

a town without being able to defend themselves from Ancestral Beasts. That was

the Security Agencies came

of Ancestral Mages that

Beast

will arrive very

for a couple

could find an Ancestral Beast while it couldn't feel the

could also hold up for several

was enough time for the Security Agency to deal with the

of the Security Agency, they might fail in dealing with an Ancestral Beast or arrive late. In both cases, the town would lose

Security

keep the entire corpse, but they would also demand a multiple of

Security Agency

contracted to this town was extremely good while also being quite

only demanded double the beast's worth on top of the corpse while also

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

That was insanely fast!

was just a hidden branch of the Temple of Blood, and they only defended their own towns

much in their interests to see

demanding to protect these

example, got attacked by an Ancestral Beast about three times per

to keep one Ancestral Mage on

worth

Named Agent, the Temple of Blood hadn't invested

Shang was responsible for an entire town, and an Ancestral Mage

to all the important people, which

Mages heard about Shang, they were

dealt with Ancestral

this new Town Lord take care of

have to worry," the old Town Lord said with a smile. "I personally tested his power, and I'm certain that

believed

said. "Even if he couldn't deal with the Archbeasts, he would just activate the Isolation Barriers, and the Security Agency would eventually repossess the town. There's no danger in giving him

Lord was very charismatic. Additionally,

gathered in front of

officially handed his position over to Shang,

people were still not convinced. After all, Shang

non-Mage