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

Ball wasn't dead

very injured and in a

Princess didn't break

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

"Help… me…"

to contact Shang with his Spirit

and

said with a bright smile. "I will release him

also ignored Fire

stopped behind the

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

an Initial Archmage

Details… details… details… details…

150 Grade Five

was

Nothing special.

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

the Keeper said. "There's

Shang stopped and waited.

the Keeper said about

traveled to the target's

minutes, Shang

later, he arrived back at

how most of

would get his mission, travel to the target, fulfill

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

of preparation and

that was also why this was such a high-paying job. After all, 150 Grade Five Mana Crystals represented 150 years of an Initial Archmage focusing on nothing but condensing

pay for about

since he had such a wide variety of abilities, such a difficult mission barely took him 15

Shang checked the entrance to Training

was active,

Ice Princess is now in

Room Two

he got

completing the mission, he returned

more and more time

the years, Shang had created several Paths on which he could

he planned

that was that

he couldn't make an informed decision on which Path he should follow, but that didn't mean that it