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 a need, there was money to

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

the Security Agencies came

groups of Ancestral

Beast

Agency will arrive very swiftly and get rid

survive for a couple of minutes, which

Magic Circle, one could find an Ancestral Beast while it

for several minutes under

time for the Security Agency to deal

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

good Security Agencies

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

Agency

Agency contracted to this town was extremely good while also being quite

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

Agency had never taken longer than 90 seconds to arrive, and most of the time, they arrived within

That was insanely fast!

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

much in their interests to

wasn't that demanding to protect

for example, got attacked by an

had to keep

alone already showed how much Shang's worth

of Blood hadn't invested anything in

town, and an Ancestral Mage was held on standby

Lord introduced Shang to all the important

High Mages heard about Shang, they were

Agency dealt with Ancestral Beasts, but what about

Town Lord

personally

believed the Town

he would just activate the Isolation Barriers,

Lord was very charismatic. Additionally,

important people gathered in front of Shang and the old

Lord officially handed his position over

still not convinced. After

non-Mage defend a