Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang's Spirit Sense encompassed the mortal district.

It was essentially a lawless land.

Nearly no True Mages were there. There were plenty of Apprentices and a couple of Adepts, but they were only the weakest of their level.

The True Mages and High Mages would pick up the talented Apprentices and Adepts. There, they would be taught all about Magic.

Most normal people in this town only became Apprentices by blindly practicing and imitating other Apprentices. Of course, there were some people that actually sold textbooks for Apprentices, but these textbooks were expensive.

The normal people there lived in a poor state where they desperately tried to make money in any way they could.

They had nearly zero resources from outside the town, and they also couldn't easily exit the town since the mortal district was in the north and the exit was to the south.

Additionally, they were forbidden from living outside and building anything outside.

Why?

Because the powerful Mages thought it would look ugly if some dirty shacks surrounded the town.

That also meant that all the food the mortals desperately needed had to be farmed inside the town.

Sometimes, some leftovers from some beasts were thrown away by the True Mages and High Mages. Some of the braver people would venture to these places during the night and bring things back for the others.

But that was a dangerous job.

Any True Mage could kill an Apprentice or weaker if they so chose to. They just shouldn't kill too many of them at once.

The guards of the town mostly didn't care. First of all, the guards straight-up just didn't patrol in the north.

Second, they had grown used to these beggars.

will find five of them

poor environment, some form of leadership

district, this

tiny farms in the mortal district, and their people defended the farms from any beggar that tried to

prostitution, gambling, and

was also a gang that focused on solving conflicts. Of course, the person with more money

the rulers of the mortal district, and they were led by three weak True

it had been

of months ago, a new gang was on the rise, and

some kind of extremely

power that transformed his surroundings into his desired Mana, making it easier

warrior, but

there were also warriors in the mortal district, not only

there were rocks and men, warriors would pop up

wasn't very difficult to come up with the concept of hitting

rich or advanced, they weren't cavemen. The warriors there used spears, swords, and many different kinds

were actually around five times as many warriors as Apprentices and

Mage was too difficult in the mortal district. Nobody had any idea

severe lack of resources, everyone was basically traveling through

have any armor since there was barely enough metal for the weapons

town was horrible, and

could leave the town, but

or True Beast would

mortal probably didn't have the Grade Six Mana Crystal

mortal travel toward the next closest town, which

poverty. The only two ways to live relatively decently were to either get accepted by a True Mage as an aspiring Mage or to become a strong warrior and get a

was a shit

his humongous castle, Shang was looking towards the north while

the detailed plans for the town. These were top secret since they also showed the cores

he looked at the