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

town without being able to defend themselves from Ancestral

the Security Agencies came

Agencies were groups of Ancestral Mages that

Ancestral Beast

will arrive very swiftly and get

to survive for a couple of

one could find an Ancestral

could also hold up for several minutes under the onslaught of an

enough 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 were

the entire corpse, but they would also demand a multiple of the beast's worth on

Agency could bankrupt

town was extremely good

worth on top of the corpse while

taken longer than 90 seconds to arrive, and most of

That was insanely fast!

was just a hidden branch of the Temple of Blood, and they

in their interests to see

it wasn't that demanding to protect these couple of

an Ancestral

only had to keep one Ancestral Mage on

how much Shang's worth had already changed in

the Temple of

town, and an Ancestral Mage was held on standby just

all the important people, which

High Mages heard about Shang, they were quite

dealt with Ancestral Beasts, but what

Town Lord take

have to worry," the old Town Lord said with a smile. "I personally tested his power, and I'm certain that he's more than capable of dealing with

not everyone believed the Town

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 him a

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

gathered in front of Shang and the old Town

handed his position over

still not convinced. After all, Shang wasn't

could a non-Mage defend