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.

your job?"

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

he still didn't perfectly know what every

was not yet time to

town's Surveillance Magic Circle, and about two minutes later,

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

towards

below the beast, their combined firepower

returned to the town, and sold it for around 450 Grade

town received around 20% of what it sold

Crystals. Of course, a lot of that

as possible. If he wanted his plan to work, he needed to know how everything worked

a group of three Archmages arrived

three Archmages

of

were cheap in one

Metal High Beasts, which were on the rarer side. Usually, Metal High Beasts were more common in the northern parts of the Twilight Dusk Family's territory or more southern, but that would already be outside the

High Beasts walking around in this place was

about 7,500 kilometers to the west of

rivals anymore. It was the most powerful beast for over 10,000 kilometers around, and it decided that it would

felt the need to hunt and consume other beasts. It was only interested in understanding more about the secrets of metal while staying

actually quite natural since this was basically what every powerful Peak Ancestral Beast

called Hibernation, and this was the last but also most difficult step to becoming a

could become Beast Lords. Most of them just died of old

was no longer keeping its Mana under control, the 500 kilometers

town got plenty of Metal High

one would be

valuable location like the Silver Abyss was obviously

The Natural Selection Company.

were harvesting the natural treasures in and around the Silver Abyss, and that included the

Beasts were not that interesting to them, which was why

town and bought nearly all of the Metal Beast corpses while

Five Mana Crystals