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,

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 doubt that they would do so because of a mere spat between two students. His parents might even want to thank you for putting some sense into him,"

"I doubt it's him."

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

required to report nearly everything about every student,"

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

'Understandable,' Shang thought.

three cronies?" Shang

names of the cronies from Stars' file

Grade. Below average due to laziness," Soran said as he put the first

Doing pretty well. It's also not

dead," Soran

was involved in this

the file away. "He died about 18 months later in the northeastern

"Vanishing Snake?" Shang asked.

Soran nodded.

"It's not him."

Shang furrowed

incident with Stars Gerbon, Shang only had one more

was

a normal student, and he hadn't even argued

it one of those

last fight with three students," Shang

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

be honest with you, back then, I tried my very best to convince teacher to expel you. You can imagine how that went," Soran said with a bit of guilt visible on his

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

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

of making Shang's life difficult with underhanded means,

can understand why," Shang

Soran said. "Thank you

Shang only absentmindedly nodded.

files and retrieved

guy you kicked," Soran

through

raised an

an

left the Warrior's Academy three

his brows. Now, they were up to

a couple of months

weekly match between the Anti-Mage Class and the Mage

became a Late Apprentice, and he

looked with a questioning

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

gave up the warrior path. But instead of turning into a nobody, he began to shine as a

a guess, I believe that he might even feel thankful to you," Soran

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

thought back to

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

event would result in the victim finding