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 there

Ball wasn't dead right

injured and in a

Ice Princess didn't

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

"Help… me…"

managed to contact Shang with

him and walked over to the

Pillar said with a bright smile.

also ignored

stopped behind the

front

Initial Archmage

Details… details… details… details…

Grade Five

mission was an

Nothing special.

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

of minutes," the Keeper said. "There's currently an Ancestral

Shang stopped and waited.

can go," the Keeper

traveled to the target's

next five minutes, Shang killed the

minutes later, he arrived back at the branch and accepted

most of Shang's

travel to the target, fulfill the

this was an Archmage. If the Named Agent didn't

a long time of preparation and planning. That definitely wasn't

job. After all, 150 Grade Five Mana Crystals represented 150 years of an Initial Archmage focusing

Mana Crystals could pay for about

Battle-Strength and since he had such a wide variety of

accepting his payment, Shang checked the entrance to

the Isolation Barrier was active, but he doubted

and Ice Princess is

Training Room

later, he got

he

more and more

had created several Paths on

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

that was that

he should follow, but that didn't mean that it would always stay