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.

colleagues was obviously prohibited, but there were always ways

Ball wasn't

very injured and

Princess didn't break any

probably intervened since Spike 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

Pillar said with a bright smile. "I will

ignored

behind the

paper appeared in front of

Initial

Details… details… details… details…

150 Grade Five Mana

was

Nothing special.

the sheet of paper, and walked

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

Shang stopped and waited.

the Keeper said

and traveled to the

the next five minutes, Shang

arrived back at the branch and accepted

most of Shang's jobs

mission, travel to the target, fulfill the

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

a mission required a long time of

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

could pay for about 15 Grade Five Mind Flow

since he had such a wide variety of abilities, such a difficult mission

checked the entrance to

Isolation Barrier was active, but he doubted it

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

Training Room Two and

days later, he got the next

he returned

and more time

the years, Shang had created several Paths on which he could

found one with some potential, he planned

that was

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