Sword God in a World of Magic

A couple of months later, Shang got contacted by the Territory Lord again.

The Congregation was happy with Shang's progress, and they decided to give him funding worth 200 Grade Six Mana Crystals.

200 Grade Six Mana Crystals.

That was an insane amount of money, and this was just one payment. Shang had already gotten quite a lot from the Temple of Blood, and they would continue supporting him in the future.

One had to remember that 200 Grade Six Mana Crystals represented 200 years of condensing Mana for an Ancestral Mage, and Shang wasn't even in the Sixth Realm.

After looking at the available funds, the Territory Lord came up with the best way for Shang to comprehend the Concept of Subtraction, but she needed to talk with the Congregation again.

When the Territory Lord talked to the Congregation, she was offering something.

An investment.

Of course, that investment would consume a huge amount of resources, and 200 Grade Six Mana Crystals wasn't enough.

However, the 200 Grade Six Mana Crystals had already been promised to Shang, and they essentially viewed them as losses.

But if Shang were willing to spend these 200 Grade Six Mana Crystals to ease the cost of the investment, it wouldn't be so bad for the Temple of Blood.

After a lot of convincing, the Congregation finally listened to the Territory Lord and agreed.

What was this investment?

90% of all the profits from Shang's town had to either be reinvested into the town or handed over to the Temple of Blood. After all,

asset of the Temple of Blood, and investing

every investment

suddenly became 200 Grade Six Mana Crystals cheaper,

to fit Shang's

An Ancestral Beast.

something

a place where beasts could live, and if any foreign Ancestral Beast came close to the Beast Residence, the beast inside the Beast Residence would attack the

way, this meant that a city would receive

was beyond expensive. Not only would one need hundreds of different Magic Circles, but one would also need to make a

the most expensive part

be bad if the Ancestral Beast decided to eat visitors or attack the city. Because of that, the very few companies that specialized in that area had to invest

be tame. If any human still

up something like that would cost around one Grade Seven Mana

town would be safer since there would be no reaction time for the Security Agency anymore. It would be like

meant that the Temple of Blood wouldn't need to keep an Ancestral Mage on standby anymore for Shang's town. Additionally, more powerful people would

course, since this investment was also supposed to help Shang comprehend the Concept of Subtraction, the

one of these companies, the Temple of Blood made their

option was cheaper wouldn't be a problem for Shang's town and might even prove to be a

everything, and a couple of months later, the

to

the Magic Circles of the town to make it compatible with the new ones they were about to

ground beneath the town while severely strengthening several spots so that the town wouldn't

which was about three kilometers wide and high. Without the earlier strengthening of the ground, the

summoned a humongous crystal, which was several hundred meters