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?

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

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

every investment

when one of the investments suddenly became 200 Grade Six Mana Crystals

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

An Ancestral Beast.

had something

a place where beasts could live, and if any foreign Ancestral Beast came

way, this meant that a city would receive

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

the most expensive part was the beast's

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

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

in all, setting up something like that would cost around one

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

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

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

the Temple

option was cheaper wouldn't be a problem for Shang's town and

Territory Lord talked with Shang about everything, and a couple of

to

Circles of the town to make it compatible with the

the town while severely strengthening several spots so that the town

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

humongous crystal, which was several hundred