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.'

the different Dukes still 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 finding

weaker warrior without permission, he will have to pay a hefty

are always ways around that. However, the further away I am from Duke Mithril's territory, the harder it gets for them to

said that as soon as I win against the first being at the Commander Stage, his protection ends. I now count as someone with the power of someone at the Commander

concentrating on my power for now. The

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

was

Lack of danger.

precisely, lack of

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

to get better as a surgeon, eventually, the doctor needed

could train his mastery over Mana, train his Affinity, and train his techniques, but he lacked the critical feedback he got during an actual

into practice and adapt if he wanted to

for that, he

had stopped Shang from gaining this experience for the last two years, but now, Shang was

earlier hadn't been truly dangerous. After all, Shang still had a couple of weapons he hadn't

and only had to focus on Shang, this

had already been exhausted

was true for the

can fight an actual Initial Commander Stage beast,' Shang thought

finally learn to condense my Domain. Then, I can advance

Stage first. I wanted to be at the Late General Stage for this fight since I

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

at the Late General Stage is more useless than useful for

think I should also

he

'First, strengthen Sword.'