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

wasn't dead right

just very, very injured and in a lot

didn't break any

normal circumstances, the Keeper would have probably intervened since Spike Ball now wasn't in his top condition to accept missions, but she was probably just as annoyed with

"Help… me…"

to contact Shang with his

him and walked over

to worry," Fire Pillar said with

also ignored Fire

Shang stopped behind the Keeper and

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

Initial

Details… details… details… details…

Grade

was

Nothing special.

the sheet of paper, and

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

Shang stopped and waited.

the Keeper said about

and traveled to the target's

five minutes, Shang

arrived back at the branch and accepted his

was how most of Shang's

his mission, travel to the

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

time of

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

Mana Crystals could pay for about 15 Grade Five Mind

Battle-Strength and since he had such a wide variety of abilities, such a difficult mission barely

Shang checked the entrance to Training

was active, but he doubted it was

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

Training Room Two

he got

he returned and

and more time

several

some potential, he planned it out but didn't

reason for that was that Shang was

the moment, he couldn't make an informed decision on which Path he