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.

obviously prohibited, but

wasn't dead

was just very, very injured and in a lot

didn't

have probably intervened since Spike Ball now wasn't in his top condition to accept

"Help… me…"

to contact Shang with his

just ignored him and walked over

Fire Pillar said with a

ignored

Shang stopped behind the

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

Initial Archmage

Details… details… details… details…

Grade

mission was an average

Nothing special.

nodded, pocketed the sheet of paper, and

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

Shang stopped and waited.

go," the Keeper said about two minutes

left and traveled to

five minutes, Shang

minutes later, he arrived back at the branch

how most of

to the target, fulfill the mission,

far more difficult. After all, this was an Archmage. If the Named Agent didn't perfectly plan and

a mission required a long time of preparation and planning. That definitely

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

pay for about 15 Grade Five

a powerful Battle-Strength and since he had such a

his payment, Shang checked the entrance

Isolation Barrier was active, but

Princess is now in there. At

Training Room Two and

days later, he got the next

he returned

more and

the years, Shang had created several Paths on which he

one with some potential, he planned it out but

reason for that was that Shang

an informed decision on which Path he should follow,