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

wasn't dead

very injured and in a

Ice Princess didn't break any

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

"Help… me…"

barely managed to contact Shang with

just ignored him and walked over to the

to worry," Fire Pillar said with a bright smile. "I will release

ignored

Shang stopped behind the Keeper and

moment later, a sheet of paper appeared in front of

an Initial

Details… details… details… details…

Grade

mission was

Nothing special.

the sheet of paper, and walked up

the Keeper said. "There's

Shang stopped and waited.

go," the Keeper said about two

left and traveled to

the next five minutes, Shang killed

he arrived back at the branch and accepted his

most of

would get his mission, travel to the

an Archmage. If the Named Agent didn't perfectly

a long time of preparation and planning. That

job. After all, 150 Grade Five Mana Crystals represented 150 years

Crystals could pay for about 15 Grade Five Mind Flow

and since he had such a wide variety of abilities, such a difficult mission

checked the entrance to

Barrier was active, but

is now in there. At least she's

entered Training Room Two and

days later, he got the

mission, he returned and

more and more

created several Paths on which he could

one with some potential, he planned it

was that

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