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.

colleagues was obviously prohibited, but there were

Ball wasn't dead

just very, very injured and in a lot

Ice Princess didn't break any

wasn't in his top condition to accept missions, but she

"Help… me…"

managed to contact Shang with his Spirit

just ignored him and walked over

to worry," Fire Pillar said with a

also ignored Fire

stopped behind the Keeper and

front of him, and he scanned it

Initial Archmage

Details… details… details… details…

Grade Five Mana

was an

Nothing special.

of paper, and walked up the stairs to

said. "There's currently an Ancestral Mage traveling through

Shang stopped and waited.

can go," the Keeper said about two minutes

left and traveled to the

next five minutes, Shang

later, he arrived back at the branch and accepted his

how most of Shang's jobs

the target, fulfill

such missions would be far more difficult. After all, this was an Archmage. If the Named Agent didn't perfectly plan and execute everything,

long time of preparation and planning. That definitely wasn't

After all, 150 Grade Five Mana Crystals represented 150 years of an Initial Archmage focusing

Crystals could pay for about 15 Grade Five Mind Flow

such a wide variety of abilities, such a difficult

payment, Shang checked the entrance to Training

was active, but he doubted

is now in there. At least she's

Room Two and continued

days later, he got

he returned and continued

more and more time

years, Shang had created several Paths on which

with some potential, he

was

informed decision on which Path he should follow,