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.

among colleagues was obviously prohibited, but there were always ways around

Ball wasn't dead right

injured

Princess didn't

Spike Ball now wasn't in his top

"Help… me…"

managed to contact Shang

and walked over to the

Pillar said with a bright smile. "I

ignored Fire

Shang stopped behind the Keeper and

appeared in front of him,

an Initial Archmage

Details… details… details… details…

Grade Five

mission was

Nothing special.

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

Keeper said. "There's currently an Ancestral Mage traveling

Shang stopped and waited.

go," the Keeper said about two minutes

and traveled

minutes, Shang

at the branch and accepted his

how most of Shang's

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

more difficult. After all, this was an Archmage. If the Named

time of

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

Mana Crystals could pay for

a wide variety of abilities, such a difficult mission barely took

Shang checked

active, but he doubted it was Spike

Ice Princess is now

Training Room Two and

later, he got the next

he returned and continued

and more time

Shang had created several Paths on

some potential, he planned it out but

reason for that was

make an informed decision on which Path he