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.

Vice-Dean Soran," Sarah

also

students. Shang called

they also furrowed

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

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

Astor said as he remembered something.

his Mana. After that, I got a surprise attack in, and he fled. The reason why

the fire come from?" Elver

Shang. "The Firebomb was finally proven to be useful, right? I told you that you would need

down

him! He managed to survive against a Mid Adept with

know," Soran said with a smile as he put a hand on Shang's

Shang only frowned.

I met him the

the others worth so much that

Shang glanced at Soran.

be a method of reinforcing good behavior. I did something he approved of, and he immediately went in to praise me for

a student. He is

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

other three looked

and you three know that an Early General Stage warrior

other three remained

SHING!

Soran summoned three pieces

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

when the secret eventually becomes public. Today, you saw Shang's true power,

them contracts, and they

Sarah said

we

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

on the contract," Sarah

"This has to remain

to have a Magic Circle mess with our memories indefinitely?"

mind. If that person

The person could die.

of their memory could be

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

put a burden on someone's mind,

you get 100,000 gold each," Soran said. "It says so on the

meant when he said that it would cost me a

he immediately signed the contract and handed it back to

a lot

future. After all, he hadn't

he wanted to quit

the decision

a long while, and he could

a year's

in exchange for signing a contract? No

smiled at Elver and handed

the Space

But it was empty.

at Soran