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.

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he's also rather popular with the other students, 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, 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 some

"I doubt it's him."

surprised about something. "How do you know so many details

teachers are required to report nearly everything about

my job to read through all the reports and create a file. I

'Understandable,' Shang thought.

three

the three names of the cronies from

to laziness," Soran said as

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

dead,"

was involved

away. "He died about 18

"Vanishing Snake?" Shang asked.

Soran nodded.

"It's not him."

Shang

Gerbon, Shang only had one more

was the worst

hadn't even argued with anyone. He had simply stayed by himself and went to his

it one of those

one last fight with three students,"

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

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

him back then. Soran hadn't really kept his dislike a

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

difficult with underhanded

can understand why," Shang

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

Shang only absentmindedly nodded.

looked through the files and retrieved three

the guy you kicked,"

through

he raised an

an

left the Warrior's Academy three

Now, they

couple

weekly match between

he became a Late Apprentice, and he

looked with a questioning

chuckle. "Interesting. He was below average in our academy, but he quickly became rather good

death and gave up the warrior path. But instead of turning into a

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

all, without you, he would probably still

back

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

such an event would result in the