Sword God in a World of Magic

Soran stood in the middle of the cave and looked up at Shang, who was currently sitting in the small hole he had created.

And then…

Soran smiled.

"I've heard your initial conversation with teacher," Soran said, "and I think I need to apologize for my previous words."

"You could have killed the three students without any repercussions. After all, you had teacher's permission. He even encouraged it."

"However, instead of doing that, you decided to spend some money to let them live."

Soran jumped over to the hole, and Shang made space for him.

Soran looked at the desecrated corpse and grabbed its Space Ring to inspect it.

"To be honest, when I heard what had happened, I grew angry and disgusted because I was sure that you would simply kill the three of them," Soran said as he looked through the Space Ring.

"But imagine my surprise when I heard that you didn't want to do so."

After some seconds, Soran threw the Space Ring over to Shang. "No information about the requester, as always."

"There are a couple of things in there that are worth a bit, but they can't compare to the Space Ring itself. I would advise you to sell the Space Ring to the academy for a good profit unless you need it yourself."

Then, Soran saw the Focus, and his eyebrows rose in surprise.

"Now, that's some money," he said as he took hold of the Focus. "I would advise you to also sell this to the academy."

"The academy?" Shang asked. "What would you even do with it?"

Soran only smiled. "We sell it back to the Cleaning Service in our monthly auctions. A fully assembled Focus is worth far more than its components, and it would be a waste to dismantle it while we have a buyer waiting."

Shang nodded.

"Anyway," Soran said as he looked at Shang again with a smile. "I'm glad you're not as heartless as I thought you were. To be frank, I assumed you were just like teacher, and teacher… well… you know."

Shang nodded. "I know how different you two are."

Soran also nodded.

"So, what's the solution to my current problem?" Shang asked.

"I'll show you. Where are they?" Soran asked.

Shang put the Focus and Space Ring into his world and jumped away from the tunnel, landing on the ground.

Soran followed Shang, and the two of them walked down the tunnel.

However, they didn't need to walk for long.

Just a couple of seconds later, they heard the sounds of hurried footsteps, and some moments later, the team of three arrived in Shang's tunnel.

Astor was the first to see Shang and Soran, and when he did, he let out a huge sigh of relief.

The team ran over and stopped in front of Shang.

"What happened to the Adept?" Sarah asked with furrowed brows.

"I dealt with him," Soran said before Shang could say anything.

Shang didn't contradict him.

much, Vice-Dean Soran," Sarah said with a polite

other two also bowed

a smile. "We can't have outside people attack our students. Shang called me as soon as he saw the attacker, and I arrived as quickly as

but they

had known, we wouldn't have come back," Elver said

tone. "If Shang shouted about contacting me, the enemy would

something.

depleting his Mana. After that, I got a surprise attack in, and he

where did the fire come from?"

he said as he looked at Shang. "The Firebomb was finally proven to be useful, right? I told you that you would need it at some point, but you said that something with this little power

only looked down with a

shouldn't make fun of Shang in this situation," Astor said with a cold but respectful voice. "You should have seen him! He managed to

know, I know," Soran said with a smile as he put a hand on Shang's shoulder. "I'm only

Shang only frowned.

the previous times I met him, except for the very first time. When I met him the very first time, he was also this chipper, but as soon as he learned more about me,

worth so much that Soran changed

Shang glanced at Soran.

approved of, and he

a student. He is a teacher, after

don't only have good news," Soran said as he furrowed

three looked at Soran with

an Early General Stage

three

SHING!

Soran summoned three pieces

reason why Shang can be so powerful is related to the academy's secrets and to the reason why he has been missing for the past year. For now,

secret eventually becomes public. Today, you saw Shang's

three of them contracts,

Contract," Sarah said

answered. "Sorry, but we can't

were

on the

"This has to remain a secret

to have a Magic Circle mess with our memories

someone's mind. If that person intended to unveil the secrets, all manners of consequences

The person could die.

their

of the contract, Soran, would be informed, and the signer of the contract would feel pain until they

someone's mind, and it

you get 100,000 gold each," Soran

he said that it would cost

the contract and handed it back to

a

had still been worried about his future. After all, he hadn't forgotten

about if he wanted to quit

now, the decision

hunt for a long while, and he could

was over a year's worth

signing a contract? No

at Elver and handed

excitedly took the Space Ring and looked

But it was empty.

at Soran with