Sword God in a World of Magic

After having met everyone, Shang retreated to the big castle in the middle of the town.

This would be his home for the foreseeable future.

'I need to give the residents some time to get used to me,' Shang thought. 'At the moment, they are still uncertain about my power, and if I implement all the changes I have planned now, many of them will leave.'

For the next couple of hours, Shang only remained on standby. There wasn't much he had to do as the Town Lord. Most of the town ran all on its own, and he only needed to get involved if it was time to use the Pathfinder Magic Circle or if there was a beast.

"There's a Peak High Beast approaching the town," Shang transmitted to the two guards in front of the town.

The two guards looked at each other with surprise.

The Surveillance Magic Circle didn't show any reactions.

Surveillance Magic Circles had several ways in which they operated.

Funnily enough, finding an Ancestral Beast was easier than finding an Archbeast for them. The reason was the sheer amount of Mana the Ancestral Beasts gave off.

Of course, the sensitivity of the Magic Circle could be increased, but it would also consume more Mana Crystals.

The setting the town's Magic Circle worked on would find a Peak High Beast if it entered a 100-kilometer radius of the town.

An Archbeast would be found within 250 kilometers.

An Ancestral Beast would be found within 1,500 kilometers.

The fact that the Surveillance Magic Circle didn't pick up the beast meant that it was over 100 kilometers away.

But their Town Lord found it already?

The guards had heard of Mages whose Spirit Sense was larger than normal, but all of these Mages were extremely outstanding and rare.

And their new Town Lord was one of these powerful people, even though he wasn't even a Mage?

"Should we deal with it, sir?" one of the guards asked.

it your job?" Shang

generally leave it up to them. Right now, the beast is not within the critical zone of 25

didn't perfectly know what every single person

time to change the rules of the

Circle, and about two minutes later, a team of Mid High Mages

past 250 kilometers from the town, they weren't in danger and could walk around

quickly traveled towards the beast

two levels below the beast, their combined firepower was enough to kill the beast without severely

corpse, returned to the town, and sold

town received around 20% of

but he had just earned about 90 Grade Four Mana Crystals. Of course, a lot of that would get reinvested into the town or be paid to the guards

the town. He had to learn as much about his town as possible. If he wanted his plan to work, he needed

half an hour later, a group of three Archmages

greeted the three Archmages

was one of the

that were cheap in

common in the northern parts of the Twilight Dusk Family's territory or more southern, but that would already be outside

why there were a lot of Metal High Beasts

about 7,500 kilometers to the west of the

any rivals anymore. It was the most powerful beast for over 10,000 kilometers

no longer felt the need to hunt and consume other beasts. It was only interested in understanding

actually quite natural since this was basically

the last but also most difficult step

Hibernation could become Beast Lords. Most of them

keeping its Mana under control, the 500 kilometers around it had transformed into a land of metal, drawing all the scattered Metal Beasts to

got plenty of Metal High Beast,

one had paid attention, one

valuable location like the Silver Abyss was obviously very interesting

The Natural Selection Company.

harvesting the natural treasures in and around the Silver Abyss, and

was why a lot of them could leave without being

entered the town and bought nearly all of the Metal Beast corpses

Five Mana