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 were

Ball wasn't dead

very, very injured and in

didn't break any

under normal circumstances, the 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

just ignored him and walked over to the

Pillar said with

ignored Fire

Shang stopped behind

sheet of paper appeared in front of him, and he scanned it with his

an Initial

Details… details… details… details…

150 Grade Five

was

Nothing special.

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

of minutes," the Keeper said. "There's

Shang stopped and waited.

Keeper said

and traveled to the target's

next five minutes, Shang

minutes later, he arrived back at

how most of

the target, fulfill the

difficult. After all, this was an Archmage. If

a long time of preparation and planning. That definitely

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

Grade Five Mana Crystals could pay for about

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

his payment, Shang checked the entrance

was active, but

is now in there. At least she's

Room Two and continued

days later, he

mission, he returned and continued

and

Shang had created several

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

that was that Shang was

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