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.

"After you two met, everyone around him abandoned him. He had trouble adjusting for the next couple of weeks, but

the other 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

"I doubt it's him."

"How do you know

nearly

read through all the

'Understandable,' Shang thought.

about his three

of the cronies from Stars' file and

due to laziness," Soran said as he put the first file away. "Not

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

one's dead,"

Shang asked. If Shang was involved in this

died about 18 months later in

"Vanishing Snake?" Shang asked.

Soran nodded.

"It's not him."

that moment, Shang furrowed

only had one more run-in with the

was the

normal student, and he hadn't even argued with anyone. He

it one of those

had one last fight with three students,"

remember," Soran said with a

honest with you, back then, I tried my very best to convince teacher to expel you. You

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

rid of him. He had voiced his concern to the Dean,

life difficult with underhanded means, he

understand

now," Soran said.

Shang only absentmindedly nodded.

looked through the files and retrieved

guy you kicked," Soran

read through the

he raised

raised an eyebrow

left the Warrior's Academy three days later," Soran

his brows. Now, they were up to

couple of months ago, some of our students

the weekly match between the

and he

looked with a questioning

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

up the warrior path. But instead of turning into a

a guess, I believe that he might even feel thankful

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

back to

broke several of his bones, and the guy had

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