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.

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 also stopped

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

"I doubt it's him."

"How do you know so many details

to report nearly everything about every

sighed. "And it's my job to read through all the reports and create

'Understandable,' Shang thought.

three

names of the cronies from Stars' file and

to laziness," Soran said as he

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

one's dead," Soran

asked. If Shang was involved

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

"Vanishing Snake?" Shang asked.

Soran nodded.

"It's not him."

that moment, Shang

Stars Gerbon, Shang only had one more

it was the worst

Shang had been a normal student, and he hadn't even argued with anyone. He had

it one

one last fight

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

my very best to convince teacher to expel you. You can imagine

wasn't surprised that Soran wanted to expel him back

Soran never tried to use any underhanded methods to get rid of him. He had

difficult with underhanded means,

understand why," Shang

regret my decision now," Soran said.

Shang only absentmindedly nodded.

looked through the files

guy you kicked," Soran

read through

he raised an

an

Warrior's Academy

Now, they were

"Just a couple of

between the Anti-Mage Class

he became a Late Apprentice, and he wasn't

looked with a questioning look

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

path. But instead of turning into

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

would probably still be near the bottom in our

thought back to that

and the guy had been convulsing on the ground as he was choking

have guessed that such an event would result in