Sword God in a World of Magic

The Inquisitor put a chain around the commander's body and woke him up.

The commander was confused for a second, but he quickly remembered where he was.

He jumped up with all of his power and tried to break the chain, but after the Inquisitor pulled lightly on it, the commander fell powerlessly to the ground.

When the commander noticed the Inquisitor, his face became white, and his world broke down.

He knew that he was in deep trouble.

"There is no information regarding who requested the mission or who put the bounty on your head," the Inquisitor said to Shang.

Shang only nodded without answering. He had expected that.

"The only thing I could find out was that the mission was put up inside the Empress Cobra Zone, but that doesn't exactly narrow it down," the Inquisitor said.

Shang already knew that it was the Wilburys.

"Thank you," Shang answered absentmindedly.

The Inquisitor nodded and left with the Ice Adept and the commander.

Shang remained on this spot for a bit longer, lost in thought, but a couple of minutes later, Shang decided to return to the Storm Eagle Zone.

'The matter with the Wilburys is over for now, but I have to be careful of where I go. Zero's bounty isn't openly displayed everywhere, and not everyone knows that I am Zero, but there might still be several people interested in me.'

'Even if only 1% of people are interested in my head, that would still be over ten True Mages in Duke Whirlwind's territory.'

'At least I don't have to hide inside Warrior's Paradise anymore. Warriors below the Commander Stage and nearly all Adepts are no longer a danger to me. The locations of warriors at the Commander Stage and True Mages are tracked, and as long as they don't want to be hunted by absolutely everyone, they won't make a move.'

have to act like they are one unit. If a True Mage were to kill me and escape, their identity would be revealed within the day, and with their identity revealed, even Duke Mithril has to comply with

but if it gets out that he is hiding someone that killed a weaker warrior without permission, he will have to pay a hefty fine. Most likely, he would just hand the person over, and the person definitely knows

around that. However, the further away I am from Duke Mithril's territory,

Stage, his protection ends. I

guess I have to continue concentrating on my power for

properly train against beasts. I hadn't had a true, direct threat to my life in over two

had noticed that his progress was

Lack of danger.

more precisely, lack of real-world

theoretically learn everything there is to know about the human body, but without any actual experience, they wouldn't be

the doctor needed to operate on a patient. There was simply no way

same was true for Shang. Shang could train his mastery over Mana, train his Affinity, and

put things into practice and adapt if he wanted to grow as quickly as he had

that, he

the last two years, but now, Shang

all, Shang still had a couple of

the three Adepts had been at their peak conditions and only had to focus on Shang, this fight would have

they hadn't. They had already been exhausted and distracted when

true for the Commander Stage

an actual Initial Commander Stage beast,' Shang thought with a

to condense my Domain. Then, I can

advance to the Peak General Stage first. I wanted to be at the Late General

way more powerful than I had anticipated. I thought that the average Adept would be about equal to my current power, but they obviously are

at the Late General Stage is more useless than useful for

should also strengthen Sword

as he

'First, strengthen Sword.'