Sword God in a World of Magic

"Your name is Shang, correct?" an older True Mage with grey robes said as he looked at Shang.

Right now, Shang was in a closed-off room with the grey-robed True Mage.

"Correct," Shang said with a wide grin. "It's been so long since I used my true name. It feels weird to hear it from someone else's mouth."

Shockingly enough, Shang's legs were on the table.

Usually, Shang would never act like this.

He was a serious person that wanted to get things over with as quickly as possible.

But this time, Shang was acting differently.

After talking with Duke Whirlwind, they decided that Shang should take on an entirely different personality when he returned.

After all, Shang had one eye, and the warrior that had come from the Spirit Spring Kingdom six months ago also only had one eye.

In order to make the Aura between these two people as different as possible, Duke Whirlwind instructed Shang to act differently.

True Mages couldn't recognize people by their Auras, but they still felt it subconsciously. Instead of knowing what was different, they simply felt that something was different, but they didn't know why.

The grey-robed True Mage only looked at Shang evenly.

He was an Inquisitor, and it was his job to make sure that Shang was not some sort of exotic spy.

"Tell me what happened. How did you leave the Skythunder Kingdom, what happened in the Grandmountain Kingdom, and how did you return?" the Inquisitor asked.

Shang's grin only widened, looking like he was elated at the prospect of telling his grand story.

Of course, Duke Whirlwind and Shang had already gone over the story he should use thoroughly.

attack of the Storm Eagle, Shang fell into the black structure at the bottom of the Storm

Shang talked about the powerful Mage that had teleported him, the Inquisitor

at the urging of Shang, the Inquisitor

on an amazing performance of being shocked that Shang

of the event that happened in the Storm

too heavily, which meant that there had been

and that he would inform King Skythunder. He also

since he wasn't in Duke Whirlwind's forces, but he did it in

told Duke Whirlwind that Shang had to clear the inquisitorial

he never intended to

was simply convinced of Shang's innocence, which was why he was sending

investigating him until

having that cleared up, the Inquisitor returned

stay hidden during the first couple of

active this entire time, but Duke

a Spell that fooled the Inquisition's Truth Verification Spells. Shang could control the results

show truth. If he wanted it to show a lie, it would show

logically sound, or the Inquisitor

by a Governor,

story and the truth was that, in this version, Shang had already reached the Commander

that an unknown barbarian had reached the

what they found

had been desperately searching for was

the next couple of years, Shang was under constant

that he had

a wild bunch of researchers

body they had always wanted, and

only brushed the years of torture off as

Tribe and live

of years