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 there

wasn't

very injured and in

Princess didn't break

Keeper would have probably intervened since Spike Ball now wasn't in his top condition to accept missions, but she was probably

"Help… me…"

to contact Shang

ignored him and walked

with a bright smile.

also ignored

Shang stopped behind the Keeper and

front of him, and he scanned it

an Initial

Details… details… details… details…

Grade Five Mana

was an average

Nothing special.

paper, and walked up

Keeper said. "There's currently

Shang stopped and waited.

go," the Keeper said about two minutes

traveled to

five minutes,

arrived back at the branch and accepted his

how most of Shang's jobs

get his mission, travel to the target, fulfill the mission,

Archmage. If the Named Agent

time of preparation and planning. That

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

Five Mana Crystals could pay for about 15 Grade Five Mind

Battle-Strength and since he had such a wide

accepting his payment, Shang checked the entrance to Training Room

Isolation Barrier was active, but he doubted it

was right, and Ice Princess is now in there.

Training Room Two and

days later, he got the

completing the mission, he returned

and more

years, Shang had created several Paths

with some potential, he planned it out but

that was that

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