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

said. "If an adventurer team is interested, we generally leave it up

though he had been led around, he still didn't perfectly know what every single person in the town was responsible for. "Then continue

was not yet time to change the rules of

Beast appeared in the town's Surveillance Magic Circle, and about two minutes later, a team of Mid High

go past 250 kilometers from the

team quickly traveled towards the beast and

though they were two levels below the beast, their combined firepower was enough to kill the beast without severely damaging the

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

20% of what it

Of course, a lot of that would

continued watching the town. He 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

of three Archmages

greeted the three Archmages casually since they already knew

was one of the merchant

to town, buying things that were cheap in one town

High Beasts were more common in the northern parts of the

of Metal High Beasts walking around in this place

was a huge hole about 7,500 kilometers to the

was the most powerful beast for over 10,000 kilometers around, and

felt the need to hunt and consume other beasts. It was only interested in understanding

quite natural since this was basically what every powerful

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

become Beast Lords. Most of

Beast to the west was no longer keeping its Mana under control, the 500 kilometers around it had transformed into a land of metal,

while Shang's town got plenty of Metal High Beast, they never got any

had paid attention, one would be

a valuable location like the Silver Abyss was obviously

The Natural Selection Company.

harvesting the natural treasures in and around the Silver Abyss,

Beasts were not that interesting to them, which was why a lot of them could leave without being

bought nearly all of the Metal Beast corpses while selling many other

500 Grade Five Mana Crystals entered