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

also

can't have outside people attack our students. Shang called

they also furrowed their

had known, we wouldn't have

calm tone. "If Shang shouted about

of," Astor said as he remembered something. "Why did he run when we

behind, severely depleting his Mana. After that, I got a surprise attack in, and he fled. The reason why I chased him

did the fire come

I told you that you would need it at some point, but you said that something with this little

looked down with

have seen him! He managed to survive against a

he put a

Shang only frowned.

time. When I met him the very

to spare the others worth so much that Soran changed his entire

Shang glanced at Soran.

approved of, and he immediately went in to praise me for

student. He is a

I don't only have good news," Soran

other three looked

are not inexperienced, and you three know that an Early General Stage warrior can't resist a Mid Adept under

other three

SHING!

Soran summoned

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

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

all three of them

Contract," Sarah said with

answered. "Sorry, but we

of them were forbidden from speaking of Shang's power

is no duration on the contract," Sarah

nodded. "This has to remain

have a Magic Circle mess with our

If that person intended to unveil the secrets, all manners of

The person could die.

part of their memory

be informed, and the signer of the contract

put a burden on someone's mind, and it was

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

that it would cost me a

he immediately signed the contract and handed it

gold was a lot

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

about if he wanted to quit the team

the

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

a year's worth of

exchange for signing

and handed him a Space

excitedly took the Space

But it was empty.

looked at