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

rule a town without being able to defend themselves from Ancestral

where the

of Ancestral Mages that dealt with

Ancestral Beast attacking

will arrive very swiftly and get

would only need to survive for a couple of minutes,

could find an Ancestral Beast while it couldn't feel

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

enough time for the Security Agency to deal

with an Ancestral Beast or arrive late. In both cases, the

Security Agencies

would also demand a multiple of the beast's worth on top of

Security Agency

Security Agency contracted to this town was extremely good

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

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

That was insanely fast!

course, this Security Agency was just a hidden branch of the Temple of Blood, and they

their

demanding to protect these

got attacked by an Ancestral

keep one Ancestral

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

a Named Agent, the Temple of Blood hadn't invested anything in

responsible for an entire town, and an Ancestral Mage was

Lord introduced Shang to all the important

heard about

Agency dealt with Ancestral Beasts, but what about

Lord take

old Town Lord said with a smile. "I personally tested his power,

believed

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

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

front of Shang and the old Town

handed his position over

still not convinced. After all,

a non-Mage defend