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.

back then, thanks to his background," Soran said. "After you two met, everyone around him 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

family has the funds to hire such a powerful Cleaner, but I doubt that they would do so because

"I doubt it's him."

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

nearly everything about

through all the reports and create a

'Understandable,' Shang thought.

his three cronies?"

the three names of the cronies from Stars' file and

to laziness," Soran said as he put the first file

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

dead,"

Shang was involved in this

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

"Vanishing Snake?" Shang asked.

Soran nodded.

"It's not him."

Shang

Gerbon, Shang only had one more

it was the worst

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

one of those

had one last fight with three students,"

with a

convince teacher to expel you. You can imagine how that went," Soran said with a bit of guilt visible on

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

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

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

understand why," Shang

my decision now," Soran said.

Shang only absentmindedly nodded.

looked through the files and retrieved three of

guy you kicked,"

read through

he raised an

an eyebrow

Academy three days

Now, they were up to

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

weekly match between the Anti-Mage Class

became a Late Apprentice, and he

with a questioning look

file again, and he had to chuckle. "Interesting. He was below

path. But instead of turning into a nobody,

that he might

he would probably still be near the bottom

back to

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

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