Sword God in a World of Magic

Right now, Shang stood on top of a hill, overlooking the border between two Zones.

The Zone he was currently in was filled with icy hills, and the Zone to its east was filled with canyons, small mountains, and craters.

Shang could see several huge towers and groups of Mages. He could even see two High Mages.

For the last two days, Shang had been watching that border, noting all the forces that were stationed there.

This border was special.

This was not only the border between two Zones but the border between two Kingdoms.

This was the border between the Blackshadow Kingdom and the Spirit Spring Kingdom.

Shang had been inside the Blackshadow Kingdom for another two years, strengthening himself and training with Sword.

By now, Shang was 32 years old.

He had been gone from the Skythunder Kingdom for around ten years, but now, he was very close to being able to return.

While the Blackshadow Kingdom enslaved physical fighters and fed them to their beasts, the Spirit Spring Kingdom was very different.

Even though they had a different kind of Summoner in their Kingdom, called a Spiriter, their entire Kingdom was completely different from the Blackshadow Kingdom.

While the Summoners enslaved their beasts, the Spiriters built a connection. The beasts willingly fought for them, and the bond between a Spiriter and their beasts was a close one.

Additionally, the Spirit Spring Kingdom was right beside the Skythunder Kingdom, and they also had some warriors travel through their Kingdom from time to time. After all, the Skythunder Kingdom and the Spirit Spring Kingdom were close allies, and plenty of warriors were sent to the Spirit Spring Kingdom to help put pressure on the Magic Purity Kingdom.

If Shang managed to enter the Spirit Spring Kingdom, he would be able to return to the Skythunder Kingdom without any problems.

He wouldn't even need to hide anymore.

'It's been over ten years,' Shang thought as he looked at the border.

Over the last couple of days, Shang had been thinking about his journey and how he had changed over its course.

He had been sent to the central-west of the Grandmountain Kingdom by that powerful Mage.

He had quickly been found and transferred to the northeastern front to fight the Blackshadow Kingdom.

There, he had learned about the barbarians.

Then, he spent around seven to eight years in the Tide Serpent Zone until he fled to the Ancestral Mountain Zone.

went to the Blackshadow Kingdom and

over ten armies of Abominations over these two years, terrifying the Blackshadow Kingdom and ending many innocent

Shang had made his peace with

many innocent people to

was the most important

times over the last two years, but he always managed to kill the person that found him before the news could

feelings regarding killing innocent people that only wanted to

did it, the easier

Lash only

Shang's survival,

years, Shang had

the Peak General Stage and uncertain of how he should act. Should

Stage. Right now, his body was at around 85% of the power of a Mid Commander Stage beast, but his upper limit was already approaching 100% due to all the Abominations he

a shirt, but since he would be among humans again soon, he decided to bend the armor into shape

were still several holes and huge dents in the armor, but it covered his upper

hung on

pants were nearly

covered his left eye looked old and in just as bad of

obviously not been taken care of, making it

wouldn't have felt alien or strange to the younger Shang, but his aura had completely

but insecure aura. He

met the Dean for the first time, he

been

he had disliked the Dean so much when they had

And now?

if Soran were here and if he were to

with the Dean

had very slowly become more and more similar to the

the beginning, Shang felt bad for

he had gotten used to

for killing the

gotten used to killing his enemies, even

that, Shang felt horrible for trying to kill a teenager

killing anyone that went against him, regardless of power

killed Lash to protect his identity, he felt horrible

his old friends as long as

if their intention wasn't to do

absolutely no intention of hurting him, which was why that incident weighed so heavily on

that just happened to come close to his hiding place, he got