Sword God in a World of Magic

A frozen, bloody human body was lying in the middle of the branch, white mist slowly leaving the corpse's opened mouth.

Shang's Spirit Sense enveloped the corpse and realized…

This wasn't a corpse.

The person was actually still alive.

They were just in a lot of pain and couldn't move due to their body being frozen.

Shang also knew the identity of the "corpse", and he wasn't surprised in the least.

It was Spike Ball.

"That was me. He told me to run back to my mommy."

Shang's head turned to the person that had just spoken.

It was a young man with a bright smile and fiery red hair.

Shang also knew that person.

He was one of the newer Named Agents, only having been part of this branch for about 20 years.

He was an Early Archmage with a Fire Affinity. He enjoyed talking with others and telling stories. In a way, he was quite charismatic and would remind someone of the dead Desert Storm.

However, compared to the dead Desert Storm, this guy actually had a huge issue.

He was a pathological liar.

He lied about nearly everything for no reason whatsoever.

His codename was Fire Pillar, and he specialized in killing large groups.

If Fire Pillar were more powerful, he would have probably received the missions to get rid of the two gatherer families instead of Shang about four years ago.

Shang obviously didn't believe Fire Pillar when he said that he was the one that had frozen Spike Ball.

He already had a pretty good guess based on the fact that Fire Pillar was now here.

Ice Princess.

Ice Princess was probably done with earning money and wanted to focus on her training.

She probably wanted to enter Training Room One, but when she saw Spike Ball reserving it without using it, she got a slight bit irritated.

obviously prohibited, but there

wasn't dead right

just very, very injured

didn't break

since Spike Ball now wasn't in his top condition to accept missions, but she was probably just

"Help… me…"

managed to contact Shang with

him and

worry," Fire Pillar said with a bright smile. "I will release him

also ignored Fire

behind the Keeper and

paper appeared in front of him,

Initial

Details… details… details… details…

Grade Five Mana

was an

Nothing special.

pocketed the sheet of paper, and walked up the

for a couple of minutes," the Keeper said. "There's currently an Ancestral Mage traveling through the

Shang stopped and waited.

can go," the Keeper said about two minutes

traveled to

minutes, Shang

later, he arrived back at the branch and

was how most

get his mission, travel to the target, fulfill the mission, and

If the Named

long time of preparation

why this was such a high-paying job. After all, 150 Grade Five Mana Crystals represented 150 years

Grade Five Mana Crystals could pay for about

such a wide variety of abilities, such a difficult

accepting his payment, Shang checked the entrance to

the Isolation Barrier was active, but

is now

entered Training Room

he

completing the mission, he returned

more and more time

years, Shang had created several

potential, he planned it out but

reason for that was

the moment, he couldn't make an informed decision on which Path he should follow, but that didn't