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.

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

angry out of shame. His family has the funds to hire such a powerful Cleaner, but I doubt that

"I doubt it's him."

was also surprised about something. "How do you know

report nearly everything about

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

'Understandable,' Shang thought.

three

got the three names of the cronies

average due to laziness," Soran said as he put the

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

dead," Soran

Shang asked. If Shang was involved in

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

"Vanishing Snake?" Shang asked.

Soran nodded.

"It's not him."

moment, Shang furrowed his

incident with Stars Gerbon, Shang only

was the worst

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

it one

one last fight

a frown. "That wasn't a pleasant

I tried my very best to convince teacher to expel you. You can imagine how that went," Soran said

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

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

with underhanded means, he simply dropped

understand

my decision now," Soran said.

Shang only absentmindedly nodded.

files and retrieved

you kicked,"

read through the

he raised

raised an eyebrow

left the Warrior's Academy three

brows. Now,

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

in the weekly match between the Anti-Mage Class and the

Apprentice, and he wasn't weak,"

looked with a questioning look

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

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

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

still be near

thought back to

with all his power, broke several of his bones, and the guy had been convulsing on the ground as he was choking on his

in the