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

the guards said. "If an adventurer team is interested, we generally leave it up to them. Right now, the beast is not within the

didn't perfectly know what every single person in

time to change

Magic Circle, and about two minutes later, a team of Mid

from the town, they weren't in danger

traveled towards

were two levels below the beast, their combined firepower was enough to kill the

the town, and sold it for around

town received around 20%

Four Mana Crystals. Of course, a lot of that would get reinvested into the town or be paid to

had to learn as much about his town as possible. If he wanted his plan to work, he needed to know how everything worked in

an hour later, a group of three Archmages arrived in front of

guards greeted the three Archmages

of the merchant

to town, buying things that were cheap

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

were a lot of Metal High Beasts walking around in this place was

about 7,500 kilometers to the west of

find any rivals anymore. It was

hunt and consume other beasts. It was only interested in

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

the last but also most difficult step

could become

no longer keeping its Mana under control, the 500 kilometers around it had

while Shang's town got plenty of Metal High Beast,

paid attention, one would be able

valuable location like the Silver Abyss was

The Natural Selection Company.

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

interesting to them, which was why a lot of them could leave without

town and bought nearly all of the Metal

Grade Five Mana Crystals