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

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

was where the Security Agencies came

Agencies were groups of Ancestral Mages that dealt

Beast

will arrive very

town would only need to survive for a

one could find an Ancestral Beast while it

expensive barriers could also hold up for several minutes

Security Agency to deal with

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

Security Agencies were

corpse, but they would also

expensive Security Agency

Agency contracted to this town was extremely

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

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

That was insanely fast!

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

their interests to see

demanding to protect these

by an Ancestral Beast about three

only had to keep one Ancestral

alone already showed how much Shang's worth had already changed in the

a Named Agent, the Temple of Blood

for an entire town, and an Ancestral Mage

to all the important people,

High Mages heard about Shang,

Security Agency dealt with Ancestral Beasts,

this new Town Lord take care

a smile. "I personally tested his power, and I'm certain that he's more than

believed the Town

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 Security Agency would eventually repossess the town. There's no danger in giving

Lord was very charismatic. Additionally, he had been the Town Lord of this town ever

important people gathered in front of Shang and the old

Town Lord officially handed his position over to Shang,

convinced. After all,

non-Mage defend