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?"

the guards said. "If an adventurer team is interested, we generally leave it up to them. Right now, the beast

been led around, he still didn't perfectly know what

time to

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

the town, they weren't in danger and could walk around

traveled towards the beast and

combined firepower was enough to kill the beast without

to the town, and sold it for around 450

around 20% of what it

had done absolutely nothing, 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

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

group of three Archmages arrived in front

Archmages casually since

was one of the

things that were cheap in one town and selling

Beasts were more common in the northern parts of the Twilight Dusk Family's territory or more southern, but

High Beasts walking around

Abyss was a huge hole about 7,500 kilometers to the west of

had been created by a very powerful Peak Ancestral Beast that couldn't find any rivals anymore. It was the most powerful beast for over 10,000 kilometers around, and it decided that it would focus

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

natural since this was

phenomenon was called Hibernation, and this was the last but also

even 1% of beasts that entered Hibernation could become Beast Lords. Most

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

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

one had paid attention, one would be able to guess

Silver Abyss was obviously very interesting to a certain

The Natural Selection Company.

in and around the Silver Abyss, and that included

were not that interesting to them, which was why

bought nearly all

Mana Crystals entered