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?

from Shang's town had to either be reinvested into the town or handed over to the Temple of Blood.

Shang's town was an asset of the Temple of Blood, and investing in it was the

not every investment was

the investments suddenly became 200 Grade Six Mana Crystals cheaper, it

Territory Lord had the amazing idea to fit Shang's town with

An Ancestral Beast.

something called a

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

way, this meant that a city would

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

part

decided to eat visitors or attack the city. Because of that, the

the Ancestral Beast would never truly be tame. If any human still did something it didn't like, that human would very quickly

like that would cost around one Grade

would be no reaction time for the

that the Temple of Blood wouldn't need to keep an Ancestral Mage on standby anymore for Shang's

also supposed to help Shang comprehend

these companies, the

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

about everything, and a couple of months later, the professionals

Shang had to welcome over 20

town to make

ground beneath the town while severely strengthening several spots so

huge underground cavern below the town, which was about three kilometers wide and high. Without

they summoned a humongous crystal, which was