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 he belongs to the top 30%. From what I'm reading, he

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

"I doubt it's him."

but he was also surprised about something. "How do

required to report nearly everything

"And it's my job to read through all the reports and create a file. I hate

'Understandable,' Shang thought.

about his three cronies?" Shang

names of the cronies from Stars' file

to laziness," Soran said as he put

also not him." Soran put the second

dead," Soran

asked. If Shang was

18 months later in the northeastern Wild Forest. You can imagine

"Vanishing Snake?" Shang asked.

Soran nodded.

"It's not him."

Shang

incident with Stars Gerbon, Shang only had

was the

even argued with anyone. He

one

fight with

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

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

wasn't surprised that Soran wanted to expel him back then.

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

Shang's life difficult with underhanded

can understand why,"

now," Soran said.

Shang only absentmindedly nodded.

files

the guy you

read through the

raised

an

the Warrior's Academy three days later," Soran

brows. Now, they were up to

doesn't end here," Soran said. "Just a couple of months

was in the weekly match between the Anti-Mage

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

with a questioning

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

beaten to death and gave up the warrior path. But instead of turning into a

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

you, he would probably still be near the bottom

thought back to that

bones, and the guy had been convulsing

result in the victim finding their own path and