Sword God in a World of Magic

"Why did the prices increase?! One bag of grain was worth Mana Scraps last week! Why is it suddenly one and a half?!" a dirty and thin woman shouted to a tall and burly thug standing in front of her.

"That's the price. Pay or leave," the thug said with a sneer.

The woman gritted her fist in hatred and fear.

These bastards!

She could see how they extorted everyone and how they increased the prices for young and beautiful women so that they had no other choice but to pay with their bodies!

Just the thought of sleeping with this arrogant piece of shit disgusted her.

But what could she do?

She had a daughter at home!

She needed the grain!

BANG!

Suddenly, the woman was thrown to the side, hitting the ground.

"Move it!" a man from behind her shouted as he handed over a Mana Scrap to the ruffian.

The ruffian took out a bag of grain and handed it over.

How was she supposed to explain to her daughter that they couldn't eat today?

"Mage Guards!"

Everyone stopped moving and looked at the person that had just shouted.

Someone had just come running towards them in a panic.

"Mage Guards are coming!" the person shouted in horror.

Almost everyone became white in the face.

Mage Guards were terrifying!

Whenever a Mage Guard noticed someone stealing trash in the actual town, they would punish them by breaking one of their hands.

Mage Guards were terrifying existences to these people.

From time to time, the people here would dare to venture outside their little village and enter the Mage Town.

There, they would scrounge for little bits of solid Mana. Apparently, the gangs were interested in these bits of solid Mana.

In truth, these bits of solid Mana were just some random scrapings from some small Mana Crystals. They were so small and worthless that no True Mage would even look at them.

But these little Mana Scraps were the very things that decided if a person survived or died in this part of the town.

Yet, the Mage Guards were the very people that made such an excursion dangerous.

The Mage Guards were the most feared enemy of the people here.

now, these Mage Guards were entering their

never

walking through the

walked past them with

These mortals smelled horrible!

at the Mage Guards as they

followed them or hid in their

many people following the Mage Guards, not even a single person

They didn't dare to.

Mage Guards reached

of dung greeted

was the public

looked with disgust at the

SHING!

in the surrounding 50 meters vanished into thin

making small things vanish, but they had never seen anyone making something

to one of his people, who then summoned a beam

burned and dried everything on that spot, and he also burned some of the stinking chemicals in

powerful wind that shoved all the dust and dirt over

leader of the guards looked at the

wasn't nearly as bad as

people watched with fascination and

What were they doing?

just remained there and

one person dared to step

BANG!

the guards flicked a finger, and

person wasn't

the one and only one

minutes later, the people parted ways again as

saluted

these new people looked at the burned

to work," he said to the two people

were the town planner's people,

CRRRRR!

in shock and horror as the earth near the wall started

was almost like it was turning

created, but since it was supposed to be a tunnel, the hole essentially became wider and

as the hole

became, the more

Circles. Additionally, they had to be careful that parts of the wall didn't move since that might also interfere with

of hours later, they stopped

people left,

of this was going on, the gang leaders tried to find

were the guards suddenly

the hours

the people's normal desires took priority, and they returned to buying food and hunting for

the Mage Guards were not here to

nothing happened

something big

people arrived, and the shocking thing was that they