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.

prohibited, but

Ball wasn't dead right

very injured and

Princess didn't

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

"Help… me…"

barely managed to contact

him and walked

said with a bright smile. "I will

also ignored

stopped behind the Keeper

front of him,

an Initial Archmage

Details… details… details… details…

150 Grade Five

mission was an

Nothing special.

paper, and walked up

for a couple of minutes," the Keeper said. "There's currently an

Shang stopped and waited.

go," the Keeper said about two

traveled to the target's

minutes, Shang

back at the branch

most of Shang's jobs

his mission, travel to the target, fulfill the mission, and come

all, this was an Archmage. If the Named Agent didn't perfectly plan and execute

required a long time of preparation and

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

Mana Crystals could pay for

had such a powerful Battle-Strength and since he had such a wide variety of abilities, such a difficult mission barely took

his payment, Shang checked the entrance

was active, but he doubted

and Ice Princess is now in there. At least she's using

entered Training Room Two and continued

days later, he got the

he returned

more and more time

years, Shang had created several Paths on which he could

with some potential, he planned it out

reason for that was that

he should