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.

but there were always ways

Ball wasn't dead

was just very, very injured and in a lot of

Princess didn't break any

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

"Help… me…"

barely managed to contact Shang with his Spirit

and walked over

said with a bright smile.

also ignored

behind

in front of him, and he scanned it with his

an Initial

Details… details… details… details…

150 Grade Five

was

Nothing special.

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

the Keeper said. "There's

Shang stopped and waited.

Keeper said about

traveled

minutes, Shang killed the

arrived back at the branch and

most of Shang's jobs

the target, fulfill the mission, and

an Archmage. If the

long time of preparation and planning.

was such a high-paying job. After all, 150 Grade Five Mana Crystals represented 150 years of an Initial Archmage focusing on

Mana Crystals could pay for about 15 Grade Five

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

payment, Shang checked the entrance to

was active, but

Princess is now

Training Room Two

he got

completing the mission, he returned and

and

years, Shang had created several Paths on which he

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

was that Shang was

decision on which Path he should follow, but that didn't mean that it would always stay like