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.

Guards were entering their

never happened

walking through the streets as

Mage Guards walked

These mortals smelled horrible!

with fear at the Mage Guards

people either followed them or hid in their

even though there were many people following the Mage Guards, not even a single

They didn't dare to.

Guards reached

huge hill of dung greeted

wall was the public toilet for

Mage Guards looked with disgust at

SHING!

meters vanished into thin air, and the

these illustrious people making small things vanish, but they had never seen anyone making

the guards nodded to one of his people,

burned and dried everything on that spot, and he also burned

powerful wind that shoved all the dust and dirt over the

guards looked at the wall

it wasn't

watched with fascination

What were they doing?

just remained there and

some time, one person dared to step a bit

BANG!

the guards flicked a finger, and the person was

the person wasn't

person had been the one and

parted ways again

parted ways and saluted respectfully to

leader of these new people looked at

let's get to work," he said to the two people

town planner's people, and they were

CRRRRR!

horror as the earth near

almost like it

supposed to be a tunnel, the hole

away as

the more the progress slowed

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

hours later, they

left, but the

this was going on, the gang leaders tried to

were the guards

the hours

normal desires took priority, and they returned to buying food and hunting for Mana

to hurt

nothing happened for

then, something

shocking thing