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

the Security Agencies came

were groups of Ancestral Mages that dealt

Ancestral Beast attacking your

Security Agency will arrive very swiftly and get rid of

survive for a

Magic Circle, one could find

barriers could also hold up for several

time for the Security Agency to

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

good Security

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

Agency

contracted to this town

top of

longer than 90 seconds to arrive, and most

That was insanely fast!

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

much in their interests to see

to protect these

town, for example, got attacked by an

had to keep one

worth had already changed in

a Named Agent, the Temple of Blood hadn't

for an entire town, and an Ancestral

Shang to all the important people, which all

Mages heard about Shang,

the Security Agency dealt with

new Town Lord take care

a smile. "I personally tested his power, and I'm certain

not everyone believed the Town

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

to convince the people, but the old Town Lord was very charismatic. Additionally,

important people gathered in front of Shang and the

handed his position over to

were still not convinced. After all, Shang wasn't

could a non-Mage defend a