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

wasn't dead

very injured and in a

Princess didn't

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

"Help… me…"

to contact Shang with his

ignored him and walked

Pillar said with a bright smile. "I will release

also ignored

stopped behind the Keeper

front of him, and he

an Initial Archmage

Details… details… details… details…

Grade Five

mission was an

Nothing special.

pocketed the sheet of paper, and walked up the stairs

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

Shang stopped and waited.

the Keeper said about two minutes

left and traveled

the next five minutes, Shang killed the

at

how most of Shang's jobs

get his mission, travel to the target, fulfill

After all, this was an Archmage. If the Named Agent didn't perfectly plan and execute everything, they might very well

time of

was also why this was such a high-paying job. After all, 150 Grade Five Mana Crystals represented 150 years of an Initial Archmage focusing on nothing

Five Mana Crystals could pay for about 15 Grade Five Mind Flow

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

Shang checked the entrance to Training Room

enough, the Isolation Barrier was active, but

Princess is now in there. At least she's

Room

later, he got the

mission, he returned and

more and more time

several Paths on which he

found one with some potential, he planned it

was that Shang

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