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, but he eventually settled in. Right now, he's in the Advanced Grade, and

a powerful Cleaner, but I doubt that they would do

"I doubt it's him."

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

to report nearly

read through all the reports and create a file.

'Understandable,' Shang thought.

about his three

of the cronies

Soran said as

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

dead," Soran

asked. If Shang was involved in this

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

"Vanishing Snake?" Shang asked.

Soran nodded.

"It's not him."

that moment, Shang furrowed his

only had

was the

student, and he hadn't even argued with anyone. He had simply stayed by himself and went to

one of those

last fight with three

a frown. "That wasn't a

I tried my very best to convince teacher to expel you. You can imagine how that

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

of him.

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

can understand why,"

my decision now," Soran

Shang only absentmindedly nodded.

looked through the files and retrieved three

the guy you

read through

he raised an

raised an eyebrow

Warrior's Academy

his brows. Now, they were up to

end here," Soran said. "Just a couple of months ago, some of our students met him

match between the Anti-Mage Class and

Late Apprentice, and he

looked with a

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

path. But instead of turning into a

I were to take a guess, I believe that he might even feel thankful to

still be near the bottom in

thought back to that

of his bones, and the

such an event would result in the victim finding their