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 there were always

Ball wasn't dead

injured and in a lot of

Ice Princess didn't break

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

"Help… me…"

barely managed to contact Shang with

and

with a bright smile. "I

also ignored Fire

stopped behind the Keeper

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

Initial Archmage

Details… details… details… details…

150 Grade

was

Nothing special.

of paper, and

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

Shang stopped and waited.

Keeper said about two

left and traveled to the target's

five minutes,

at the branch

most of Shang's jobs

would get his mission, travel to the target, fulfill the

such missions would be far more difficult. After all, this was an Archmage. If the Named Agent didn't perfectly plan and execute everything, they might

a mission required a long time of preparation and planning. That definitely wasn't

that 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 but

Five Mana Crystals could pay for

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

payment, Shang checked the entrance to Training Room

active, but he doubted

right, and Ice Princess is now in there.

Training Room

days later, he got

the mission, he returned and continued

more and

the years, Shang had created several

potential, he planned it out but didn't

reason for that was that Shang was

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