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.

was obviously prohibited, but there were always ways around

Ball wasn't dead right

very, very injured

Ice Princess didn't break

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

"Help… me…"

managed to contact Shang with his Spirit

him and

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

ignored Fire

Shang stopped behind

moment later, a sheet of paper appeared in front of him,

Initial

Details… details… details… details…

Grade Five Mana

was

Nothing special.

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.

go," the Keeper

and traveled to

five minutes,

back at the branch and

was how most of Shang's jobs

his mission, travel to the target,

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

of preparation

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

could pay for about

such a powerful Battle-Strength and since he had such a

accepting his payment, Shang checked the entrance to Training Room

was active, but he

right, and Ice Princess is now in there.

entered Training Room

days later, he got the

mission, he

more and more

several Paths on which he

with some potential, he planned it out but didn't train in

was that Shang was

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