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.

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 30%. From what I'm reading, he also stopped using his

hire such a powerful Cleaner, but I doubt that they would do so because of a mere spat between two students. His parents might even want to thank you for putting

"I doubt it's him."

he was also surprised about something. "How do you know so

required to report nearly everything about

sighed. "And it's my job to read through all the reports and create a file. I hate that part of

'Understandable,' Shang thought.

three cronies?" Shang

names of the cronies from

due to laziness," Soran said as he put the first file

not him." Soran put the

dead,"

Shang was involved in this

he put the file away. "He died about 18 months later in the northeastern Wild Forest. You can imagine what he died

"Vanishing Snake?" Shang asked.

Soran nodded.

"It's not him."

Shang furrowed his

Stars Gerbon, Shang only had one more run-in with

was

hadn't even argued with anyone. He had simply stayed by himself

one of those

had one last fight with three students,"

Soran said with a frown. "That

with you, back then, I tried my very best to convince teacher to expel you. You can imagine how that went,"

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

rid of him. He had voiced his concern to the

Shang's life difficult with underhanded means, he simply dropped

can understand why," Shang

now," Soran said. "Thank

Shang only absentmindedly nodded.

files and retrieved

guy you kicked," Soran

read through

he raised an

an eyebrow in

left the Warrior's Academy three days later,"

Now, they were up to

said. "Just a couple

match between the Anti-Mage Class and the

Late Apprentice, and

looked with a questioning

through the file again, and he had to chuckle. "Interesting. He was below

warrior path.

a guess, I believe that he might even

still be near the bottom in

back to that

and the guy had been

result in the victim finding their own path