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.

abandoned him. He had trouble adjusting for the next couple of weeks,

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 doubt that they would do so because of a mere spat between two students. His parents might even want to thank you for

"I doubt it's him."

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

report nearly everything about every

Soran sighed. "And it's my job to read through all the reports and create a

'Understandable,' Shang thought.

three

the three names of the cronies from Stars' file and

said as

Grade. Doing pretty well. It's also not him." Soran put

one's dead,"

asked. If Shang was involved in

he put the file away. "He died about 18 months later

"Vanishing Snake?" Shang asked.

Soran nodded.

"It's not him."

moment, Shang

Stars Gerbon, Shang only had

was the worst

even argued with anyone. He had simply stayed by himself

it one of

fight with three students,"

said with a frown. "That wasn't a

expel you. You can imagine how that went," Soran said with

him back then. Soran hadn't really kept his dislike a

never tried to use any underhanded methods to get rid of him. He

with underhanded

can understand why,"

my decision now," Soran said. "Thank you for

Shang only absentmindedly nodded.

the files and retrieved three

you kicked,"

through

raised an

an eyebrow in

Warrior's Academy three

brows. Now, they were

said. "Just a couple of months ago, some of our

the weekly match between

Apprentice, and he

a questioning

looked through the file again, and he had to chuckle. "Interesting. He was below average in our academy, but he quickly

nearly got beaten to death and gave up the warrior path. But instead of turning

were to take a guess, I believe that he might even feel thankful to you," Soran said with

all, without you, he would probably still be near the bottom in

thought back

broke several of his bones, and the guy had been convulsing on the ground as he

in the victim