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, this was the

the Temple of Blood, and investing in it was the same as

not every investment

200 Grade Six Mana Crystals cheaper,

idea to fit Shang's town with

An Ancestral Beast.

cities had something

foreign Ancestral Beast came

way, this meant that a city would receive an Ancestral

hundreds of different Magic Circles, but one would also need to make a lot of space for the

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 a

would never truly be tame. If any human still

all, setting up something like that would cost around one Grade Seven

town would be safer since there would be no reaction time for the Security Agency

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 be interested in moving to

supposed to help Shang comprehend the Concept of Subtraction, the beasts had

these companies, the Temple of Blood

with one of the cheaper options, but the reason why the option was cheaper wouldn't be a problem for Shang's town and might even prove to be a

Territory Lord talked with Shang about everything, and

this day, Shang had to

the town to make it compatible with the new ones they

into the ground beneath the town while severely strengthening

wide and high. Without the earlier strengthening of the ground, the town would

that, they summoned a humongous crystal, which was several