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?

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 Temple of Blood's town, not

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

not every investment was

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the amazing idea to fit Shang's town with a very

An Ancestral Beast.

something called

Beast came close to the Beast Residence, the beast

a way, this meant that a city would receive an Ancestral

need hundreds of different Magic Circles, but one would also need

the most expensive part was the beast's

or attack the city. Because of that, the very few companies that specialized in that area

If any human still did something it didn't

setting up something like that

would be no reaction time for the Security Agency anymore. It would be like

of Blood wouldn't need to keep an Ancestral Mage on standby anymore for Shang's town. Additionally,

to help Shang comprehend the Concept of Subtraction, the

contacting one of these companies, the Temple of

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

with Shang about everything, and a couple of months

Shang had to welcome over 20 Ancestral

Magic Circles of the town to make it compatible with

the ground beneath the town while severely strengthening several spots so that the

huge underground cavern below the town, which was about three kilometers wide and high. Without the earlier strengthening of the ground, the town would have collapsed above

a humongous crystal, which