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.

powerful 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 he belongs to the

and whenever someone brings up his old behavior, he gets angry out of shame. His family has the funds to hire such a powerful Cleaner,

"I doubt it's him."

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

required to report nearly everything about every student,"

through all the reports and create

'Understandable,' Shang thought.

three cronies?"

names of the cronies from Stars'

said as he put

It's also not him." Soran put the

one's dead,"

Shang asked. If Shang was involved

said as he put the file away. "He died about 18 months later in the northeastern Wild

"Vanishing Snake?" Shang asked.

Soran nodded.

"It's not him."

that moment, Shang

Shang only

was the

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

it one of those

had one last fight

with a frown. "That

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

that Soran wanted to expel him back then. Soran hadn't really

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

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

can understand

regret my decision now," Soran said. "Thank you

Shang only absentmindedly nodded.

the files

the guy you kicked," Soran

read through

raised

raised an eyebrow in

Warrior's Academy three days

furrowed his brows. Now, they

here," Soran said. "Just a couple

in the weekly match between the

Late Apprentice, and he

with a questioning

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

He nearly got beaten to death and gave up the warrior path. But instead of turning into a nobody,

that he might even

would probably still be near the bottom

thought back

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

would result in the victim