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.

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

powerful Cleaner, but I doubt that they would do so because of a mere spat between two students. His parents might even want to thank you for putting

"I doubt it's him."

was also surprised about something. "How do you know

required to report nearly everything

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

'Understandable,' Shang thought.

about his three cronies?" Shang

the cronies from Stars' file and looked through

laziness," Soran said

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

dead,"

If Shang was involved in

"He died about 18 months

"Vanishing Snake?" Shang asked.

Soran nodded.

"It's not him."

Shang furrowed his

the incident with Stars Gerbon, Shang only had one more run-in

it was the worst

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

one

fight with three

Soran said with a frown. "That wasn't

best to convince teacher to expel you. You can imagine how

expel him back then. Soran hadn't really kept

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," Shang

Soran said. "Thank

Shang only absentmindedly nodded.

looked through the files and retrieved three of

guy you kicked,"

through the

raised an

raised an eyebrow

Warrior's Academy three days

brows. Now, they were

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

was in the weekly match between the Anti-Mage Class

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

a questioning

to chuckle. "Interesting. He was below average in our academy,

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

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

he would probably still be near the bottom

thought back to

the guy had been convulsing

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