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.

the next couple of weeks, but he eventually settled in. Right now, he's in the

has the funds to hire such a powerful Cleaner, but I doubt that they would do so because of a mere

"I doubt it's him."

something. "How do you know so

nearly everything about every

job to read through all the

'Understandable,' Shang thought.

his three cronies?"

the three names of the cronies

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

Doing pretty well. It's also not

one's dead," Soran

asked. If Shang was involved in this

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

"Vanishing Snake?" Shang asked.

Soran nodded.

"It's not him."

that moment, Shang

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

it was the worst

even argued with anyone. He had simply

one of those

fight with three students," Shang

Soran said with a frown. "That wasn't a

to convince teacher to expel you.

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

any underhanded methods to get rid of him. He had voiced his concern to the Dean, and he

making Shang's life difficult with underhanded means,

can understand why," Shang

regret my decision now," Soran said.

Shang only absentmindedly nodded.

through the files and retrieved

guy you

read through

raised an

an

Academy three days later," Soran

brows. Now,

his file doesn't end here," Soran said. "Just a couple

was in the weekly match between the Anti-Mage Class and

and he wasn't weak," Soran

looked with a questioning look

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

death and gave up the warrior path. But instead

take a guess, I believe that he might

would probably still be near

thought back to

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

would have guessed that such an event would result in the victim finding their