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.

He had trouble adjusting for the next couple of weeks,

someone brings up his old behavior, he gets angry out of shame. His family has the funds to hire such a powerful

"I doubt it's him."

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

nearly everything about every student,"

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

'Understandable,' Shang thought.

his three cronies?" Shang

the three names of the cronies

to laziness," Soran said

pretty well. It's also not

dead," Soran

was

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

"Vanishing Snake?" Shang asked.

Soran nodded.

"It's not him."

moment, Shang furrowed

incident with Stars Gerbon, Shang only had one

was the worst

normal student, and he hadn't even argued

one of

one last fight with

a frown. "That wasn't

to expel you. You can imagine how

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

get rid of him. He had voiced his

life difficult with underhanded means,

can understand

regret my decision now," Soran said.

Shang only absentmindedly nodded.

through the files and retrieved three

guy you kicked," Soran

through

raised an

raised an eyebrow

Warrior's Academy three days later," Soran

brows. Now, they were

"Just a couple of months ago, some of our

match between the Anti-Mage Class

and he wasn't weak,"

looked with a

He was below average in our academy, but he quickly became rather good in

warrior path. But instead of turning

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

would probably still

back to that

guy with all his power, broke several of his bones, and the guy had been convulsing

an event would result in the victim finding