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.

the next couple of weeks, but he eventually

someone brings up his old behavior, he gets angry 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

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

'Understandable,' Shang thought.

about his three cronies?" Shang

cronies

to laziness," Soran said

well. It's also not

one's dead,"

If Shang was

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

"Vanishing Snake?" Shang asked.

Soran nodded.

"It's not him."

Shang furrowed

Shang only had one more

it was

hadn't even argued with anyone. He had simply

it one of those

one last fight with three students," Shang

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

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

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

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

with

can understand why,"

Soran

Shang only absentmindedly nodded.

looked through the files and retrieved

guy you kicked," Soran

through

he raised an

raised an

left the Warrior's Academy three days later," Soran

furrowed his brows. Now, they were

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

match between the Anti-Mage

he became a Late Apprentice, and he wasn't

a

had to chuckle. "Interesting. He was below average

path. But instead of turning into a nobody, he began to

that he might even

still be near the bottom in

back to that

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

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