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.

among colleagues was obviously prohibited, but there were always

Ball wasn't

injured and in a

Princess didn't

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

"Help… me…"

to contact Shang with

and

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

ignored

Shang stopped behind the Keeper

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

Initial

Details… details… details… details…

150 Grade Five

mission was

Nothing special.

pocketed the sheet of paper, and walked up the stairs to

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

Shang stopped and waited.

the Keeper said about

traveled

minutes, Shang

minutes later, he arrived back at the branch and accepted his

most of Shang's

his mission, travel to the target,

missions would be far more difficult. After all, this was an Archmage. If the Named Agent

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

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

Crystals could pay for

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

his payment, Shang checked the entrance to Training Room

the Isolation Barrier was active, but he doubted it was Spike

I was right, and Ice Princess is now in there.

Room Two

he

he

more and

years, Shang had created several

potential, he

for that was that Shang was

which Path he should follow, but that didn't mean that it