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.

prohibited, but there were always ways

Ball wasn't

just very, very injured and in

didn't break

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

"Help… me…"

to contact Shang with his Spirit

him and walked over to the

have to worry," Fire Pillar said with a bright

ignored Fire

Shang stopped behind the Keeper

in front of him, and he scanned it with his

an Initial Archmage

Details… details… details… details…

Grade Five

was

Nothing special.

sheet of paper, and walked up the

minutes," the Keeper said. "There's currently an Ancestral Mage traveling through the

Shang stopped and waited.

the Keeper said about two minutes

traveled to the target's

minutes, Shang killed

minutes later, he arrived back at

was how most

travel to the target, fulfill the mission, and

Archmage. If the Named Agent didn't

time of

why this was such a high-paying job. After all, 150 Grade Five Mana Crystals represented 150 years of an

pay for about 15 Grade Five Mind Flow

a wide variety

payment, Shang checked the entrance to Training

active, but he

and Ice Princess is now in there. At least she's using

Training Room

later, he got the next

completing the mission, he returned and continued

more and

several Paths on which he

he found one with some potential, he planned it

reason for that was

he