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,"

also bowed in

students. Shang called me as soon as

but they

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

calm tone. "If Shang shouted about contacting me,

something.

After that, I got a surprise attack in, and he fled. The reason why I chased him was to

the way, where did the fire come

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

down with a

"You should have seen him! He managed to survive against a Mid Adept with a Poison Affinity for a long time, and he even managed

put a hand on Shang's shoulder. "I'm only

Shang only frowned.

very first time. When I met him the very

others worth so much that Soran changed his entire behavior towards

Shang glanced at Soran.

something he approved of, and he immediately went in to praise

a student. He is a

only have good news," Soran said as he furrowed

looked

that an Early General Stage warrior can't resist a Mid Adept

three remained

SHING!

summoned

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, it's still a secret, but if everything works out fine, we will

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

three of them contracts, and they

Sarah said

but we can't take any

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

on the

has to remain a secret

a Magic Circle mess with our memories indefinitely?" Sarah asked

Magic Circle into someone's mind. If that person intended to unveil the secrets, all

The person could die.

of their memory could

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

mind, and it was mostly used as a

100,000 gold each," Soran

when he said that it would cost me

he immediately signed the contract and handed it back

a

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

if he wanted to quit the

the decision was

to hunt for a long while, and he

over a year's worth

for signing

and handed him a

Space

But it was empty.

looked at