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

rule a town without being able to defend themselves

was where the Security Agencies came

Ancestral Mages that

Ancestral Beast attacking

will arrive very

town would only need to survive for a couple of minutes, which wasn't necessarily

could find an Ancestral Beast

hold up for several minutes under the

for the Security

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

good Security

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

expensive Security Agency could bankrupt a

this town

worth on top of the corpse while also being

Agency had never taken longer than 90 seconds

That was insanely fast!

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

in their interests

that demanding to protect these couple

by an Ancestral Beast about three times

to keep one Ancestral

how much Shang's worth had

Temple of Blood hadn't invested anything in

entire town, and an Ancestral Mage was

Town Lord introduced Shang to all the important people,

heard about Shang,

Security Agency dealt with Ancestral Beasts, but

this new Town Lord take

Town Lord said with a smile. "I personally tested his power, and I'm certain that he's

believed the

"Even if he couldn't deal with the Archbeasts, he would just activate the Isolation Barriers, and the

the people, but the old Town Lord was very charismatic. Additionally, he had

people gathered in front

his position over

still not convinced. After

non-Mage defend