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

wasn't dead right

very injured

Ice Princess didn't break any

the Keeper would have probably intervened since Spike Ball now wasn't in his

"Help… me…"

Ball barely managed to contact Shang with

ignored him and walked over to the

to worry," Fire Pillar said with

ignored Fire

stopped behind the Keeper and

a sheet of paper appeared in front of him, and he scanned it with

an Initial

Details… details… details… details…

150 Grade

was an average

Nothing special.

sheet of paper, and walked up the

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

Shang stopped and waited.

Keeper

left and traveled to the

five minutes, Shang killed the

he arrived back at the branch and accepted his

most of Shang's jobs

mission, travel to the target, fulfill

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

mission required a long time of preparation and planning. That definitely

was such a high-paying job. After all, 150 Grade Five

Grade Five Mana Crystals could pay for about 15 Grade

since he had such a wide variety of abilities, such a difficult mission barely

accepting his payment, Shang checked the entrance to Training Room

was active, but

right, and Ice Princess is now in there. At

entered Training Room

later, he got the

completing the mission, he

more and more

created several Paths on which he could

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 mean that it would always stay like