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

such a poor environment, some form

this was the

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

gang for prostitution, gambling,

focused on solving conflicts. Of course, the person with more

three gangs were the rulers of the mortal district, and they were led

that was how it had been in the past

months ago, a new gang was on the rise, and surprisingly enough, it wasn't led by a

kind of extremely powerful

weird power that transformed his surroundings into his desired

Stage warrior, but the mortals didn't

the mortal district, not only Apprentices

men,

very difficult to come up with the concept of hitting someone's head with a

while the mortal district wasn't very rich or advanced, they weren't cavemen. The warriors there used spears, swords, and

around five times as many warriors

that becoming a Mage was too difficult in the mortal district. Nobody had any idea how

to the severe lack of resources, everyone was basically traveling through the warrior path blindly. Especially their weapons were not very

any armor since there was barely enough metal for the weapons

in this town was horrible, and worst

could leave the town, but

Adept Beast or True Beast

didn't have the Grade Six Mana Crystal necessary to request the Pathfinder

toward the next closest town, which was around 5,000 kilometers

were doomed to live in poverty. The only two ways to live relatively decently were to either get accepted by a True Mage

was a shit

humongous castle, Shang was looking towards the north while rubbing

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

looked at the wall to the north of the