Sword God in a World of Magic

"Move! Make space for the next ones!" one of the guards told Shang with annoyance.

Shang moved to the side, and a couple of seconds later, Soran appeared on top of the wall.

Soran had a nice conversation with the stationed guards once again before leading the team down the wall.

"And that's that," Soran said as he turned to everyone. "It was nice seeing some of you again."

Sarah immediately left without saying anything. Apparently, the Magic Contract annoyed her quite a bit.

Elver and Astor also said their goodbyes before following Sarah.

"Shang, follow me," Soran said after everyone left.

Shang only nodded and followed Soran.

After a couple of minutes, they returned to the academy.

Soran immediately led Shang to the main building and to the fifth floor, which was reserved for teachers.

The two of them entered Soran's office and sat down.

SHING!

Soran summoned a gigantic stack of papers, which heavily hit the desk in his office.

Then, he looked at Shang with a smile. "Want to find out who hired the Cleaner?" he asked.

Shang's eyes shone, and he nodded.

"Tell me what you know and who you suspect," Soran said.

Shang recounted his thoughts about who could have wanted him dead.

It essentially boiled down to that it had to be one of the students.

Soran nodded. "That's what I thought," he said as he took the huge stack of papers into his hands.

"Tell me of everyone you met that might have a motive for wanting you dead."

Shang thought for a bit and decided to go in chronological order.

"The guy in the entrance exam. The one I beat up," Shang said.

"Michael Brestow," Soran said as he searched through the papers until he found the student's file.

"He's in the Preparation Grade right now, and he is about average. Nothing has changed for him. I severely doubt that it's him," Soran said.

Shang nodded. He hadn't thought that he would have been the one to send the Cleaner, but Shang wanted to be thorough.

"Stars Gerbon," Shang said. "I was the reason for his strongest helper leaving, and I beat his two cronies up. I also tore his jaw off."

Soran grimaced a bit, but he looked for Stars' file.

his background," Soran said. "After you two met, everyone around him abandoned him. He had trouble adjusting for the next couple of weeks, but he eventually settled in. Right now, he's in the Advanced Grade, and he belongs to the top

popular with the other students, and whenever someone brings up his old behavior, he gets angry out of shame. His family has the funds to hire such a powerful Cleaner, but I

"I doubt it's him."

nodded, but he was also surprised about something. "How do you know so many details about

nearly everything about every student," Soran

job to read through all the reports and create a file. I hate

'Understandable,' Shang thought.

about his three

of the cronies from Stars' file and looked

Soran said as he put

It's also not him." Soran put the second file

dead," Soran

was involved in this

said as he put the file away. "He died about 18 months later in the northeastern

"Vanishing Snake?" Shang asked.

Soran nodded.

"It's not him."

moment, Shang furrowed his

Gerbon, Shang only had one more run-in

was

hadn't even argued with

one of

one last fight with three students,"

remember," Soran said with a frown. "That wasn't a pleasant

tried my very best to convince teacher to expel you. You can imagine how that went," Soran said with a

nodded. He wasn't surprised that Soran wanted to expel him back then. Soran hadn't really kept his dislike a secret

of him. He had voiced his concern to

difficult with underhanded means, he

understand why," Shang

decision now," Soran said. "Thank

Shang only absentmindedly nodded.

files and retrieved three

you kicked," Soran

read through

raised

an eyebrow

left the Warrior's Academy

Now, they

"Just a couple of months ago, some of our students met him

was in the weekly match between the Anti-Mage Class

became a Late Apprentice, and he wasn't weak," Soran said with

with a questioning

chuckle. "Interesting. He was below average in our academy, but he quickly became

gave up the warrior path. But instead of turning into a

believe that he might even

would probably still

back to

bones, and the guy had been convulsing on the

in the