Sword God in a World of Magic

About six months after Shang arrived in the Storm Eagle Zone, he prepared to officially return.

He traveled through multiple Zones in disguise until he arrived at one bordering the frontlines.

In comparison to the rich places all over the Kingdom, this Zone looked barren.

There were no farms, no trading hubs, and no cities.

There were only lots of warriors and Mages stationed here who were preparing for the next assault on the Grandmountain Kingdom.

This Zone was the Hurricane Wolf Zone, and the Zone bordering it, which belonged to the Grandmountain Kingdom, was the Explosion Gecko Zone.

Shang and Duke Whirlwind had already come up with a good plan to let Shang return.

Duke Whirlwind had told Shang that it had been quite a while since there had been any Abominations appearing in these two Zones. If Shang could redirect them more towards the Grandmountain Kingdom's frontlines, he could charge through without any suspicion.

But wait, wouldn't someone become suspicious if Abominations appeared around Shang?

No, why would they?

Abominations appeared all the time, and the Zones were already on high alert for the next wave.

The wave would be expected, not unexpected.

Duke Whirlwind had planned everything in detail with Shang, including what things the Skythunder Kingdom would find in his Space Ring.

Shang even changed Sword's appearance again to its Colossal Sword size. That would make it more believable for Shang to have blended in as a barbarian in the Grandmountain Kingdom.

Theoretically, due to the way the border was set up, Shang could cross it without being noticed, even without the Abominations.

The Hurricane Wolf Zone was filled with thin but incredibly tall spires, housing many flying beasts.

Shang only needed to climb one, "persuade" a beast to carry him, and fly to the Explosion Gecko Zone without anyone noticing. After all, these flying beasts kept flying across the border all the time. They were about as common as birds for the border guards, and they wouldn't look at them.

Inspecting every single flying beast that flew kilometers above their heads would require a tremendous number of resources, and the Grandmountain Kingdom was already short on resources concerning this frontline.

In the war against the Skythunder Kingdom, the Grandmountain Kingdom wasn't focusing on winning but on buying time and surviving. They were focusing their entire power on fighting the Blackshadow Kingdom while waiting for the Magic Purity Kingdom to deal with the Skythunder Kingdom.

Zone from the Explosion Gecko Zone in a similar way, but in comparison to the Grandmountain Kingdom, the Skythunder

had caught quite a few spies that

way, it would look very suspicious to the Skythunder Kingdom. If Shang were an ally, why would he try to sneak into his own

while Shang could get to the Grandmountain Kingdom this way, he couldn't return the

his Blasts since that tool was too good for escaping. Some of

this meant that Shang had to

would he not receive

he probably got thoroughly interrogated, but Duke Whirlwind had already set everything up for

to Duke Whirlwind, the resident Duke wasn't involved in the conflict between the Council and Duke Whirlwind. His territories were so far away that it was pointless

though the Council was united against Duke Whirlwind, they still couldn't allow anyone to talk to King Skythunder about this. The fewer the people that knew the specifics, the

was not involved

would be neutral

Shang quickly climbed one of the spires, grabbed a powerful bird, and used it to fly across the

into another powerful beast and made it appear that both beasts had heavily injured each

the ground, and Shang

landed, he put the corpses into his inner world and hid amongst the crevices

And then, he waited.

barbarian arrived at the spot, searching for the corpses.

used his Pseudo-Spirit Sense to check the surroundings and noted

BANG!

exploded forward, killed the barbarian, and pulled him into a

was clean, quick, and

the corpse, Shang found the

silver needle from his inner world and put it into the corpse's right

a light image appeared on the

the insignia of this

information the Skythunder Kingdom had received during their

today, Shang would use

image

and

needle away and focused on

not for the talented barbarians but for the criminals. Basically every single barbarian wore these collars

retrieved a couple of exquisitely crafted tools and put them on

Clink!