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?"

one of the guards said. "If an adventurer team is interested, we generally leave it up to

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

not yet time to change the

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

past 250 kilometers from the town, they weren't

team quickly traveled towards the

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

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

received around 20%

a lot of that would get reinvested into the town or be paid to the

as much about his town as possible.

hour later, a group of

guards greeted the three Archmages casually since they already knew

of

that were cheap in one town and selling them expensive in

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

were a lot of Metal High Beasts walking around

Abyss was a huge hole about 7,500

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

other beasts. It was only interested

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

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

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

keeping its Mana under control, the 500 kilometers around it had transformed into a

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

attention, one

a valuable location like the Silver Abyss was

The Natural Selection Company.

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

High Beasts were not that interesting to them, which was why a lot

all of

Mana Crystals