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.

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,

hire such a powerful Cleaner, but I doubt that they would do so

"I doubt it's him."

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

to report nearly everything about

all the reports and create a

'Understandable,' Shang thought.

about his three cronies?" Shang

got the three names of the cronies from Stars'

said as he put the

It's also not

one's dead,"

If Shang was

the file away. "He died about 18 months later in the northeastern

"Vanishing Snake?" Shang asked.

Soran nodded.

"It's not him."

that moment, Shang furrowed his

with Stars Gerbon, Shang only had

was the

student, and he hadn't even argued

it one

fight

Soran said with a

with you, back then, I tried my very best to convince teacher to expel you. You can imagine how that

him back then.

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

difficult with underhanded means, he simply dropped

understand why,"

decision now," Soran said. "Thank you

Shang only absentmindedly nodded.

files and retrieved three of

guy you kicked,"

through

raised

an eyebrow

the Warrior's Academy three days later," Soran

Now, they were up

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

weekly match between the Anti-Mage Class and

a Late Apprentice, and

looked with a questioning look

"Interesting. He was below average in

up the warrior path. But instead of turning into a nobody, he began

believe that he

he would probably still be near the bottom

back to that

broke several of his bones, and the guy had been convulsing on the

event would result in the