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.

met, everyone around him abandoned him. He had trouble adjusting for the next couple of weeks, but he eventually settled in.

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

"I doubt it's him."

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

nearly everything about every student," Soran

all the

'Understandable,' Shang thought.

three cronies?"

the three names of the cronies

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

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

one's dead," Soran

was involved in this

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

"Vanishing Snake?" Shang asked.

Soran nodded.

"It's not him."

that moment, Shang furrowed

incident with Stars Gerbon, Shang only had

it was the worst

argued with anyone. He had simply stayed by himself and went to

it one

one last fight with

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

then, I tried my very best to convince teacher to expel you. You can

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

Soran never tried to use any underhanded methods to get rid of him. He had voiced his concern to the Dean, and

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

can understand why," Shang

now," Soran

Shang only absentmindedly nodded.

the files and

you kicked,"

through the

he raised

raised an

the Warrior's Academy three days

Now, they were

end here," Soran said. "Just a couple of months ago, some

in the weekly match between the Anti-Mage Class and

a Late Apprentice, and he wasn't weak,"

with a questioning

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

nearly got beaten to death and gave up the warrior path. But instead of turning into a nobody,

that he might even feel thankful to

would probably still be near the bottom in our

thought back

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

that such an event would result in the victim finding their own path