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.

Soran," Sarah said with

other two also bowed in

a smile. "We can't have outside people attack our students. Shang called me as soon as he

team nodded, but they also

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

know," Soran said with a calm tone. "If Shang shouted about contacting

something. "Why

said calmly. "The fire attacked him from the front and from behind, severely depleting his Mana. After that, I got a surprise attack in, and he fled. The reason why

did the

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

only looked down with a

you 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 survive against

he put a hand on Shang's shoulder.

Shang only frowned.

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

the others worth so much that Soran changed his entire

Shang glanced at Soran.

reinforcing good behavior. I did something he approved of, and he immediately went in to praise me for my actions. It's almost like I'm a

a student. He is a teacher, after

only have good news," Soran said as he furrowed his

three looked at Soran with

you three know that an Early General

other three

SHING!

that moment, Soran summoned

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, it's still a secret, but if everything works out fine, we will be able to publicize it in about

Shang's power still needs to be kept under wraps, even when the secret eventually becomes public. Today, you saw Shang's true power, and I can't risk

handed all three of them contracts, and they

Magic Contract," Sarah said with

but we can't

that the three of them were forbidden from speaking of Shang's

no duration on the contract," Sarah

has to

have a Magic Circle mess with our memories indefinitely?"

If that person intended to unveil the secrets,

The person could die.

part of their memory could be

case, the issuer of the contract, Soran, would be informed, and the

a contract put a burden on someone's mind, and it was mostly used as

each," Soran said. "It says

that it would cost me

immediately signed the contract and

gold was a lot of

about his future. After all, he hadn't forgotten his argument with

if he wanted to quit

the

wouldn't need to hunt for a long while, and he could

was over a year's worth

for signing a

at Elver and handed

took the Space Ring

But it was empty.

at Soran with