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.

prohibited, but

wasn't dead right

injured and in a lot of

didn't

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

"Help… me…"

contact Shang with

just ignored him and walked over to

with a bright smile. "I will

also ignored Fire

behind the

a sheet of paper appeared in front

an Initial

Details… details… details… details…

150 Grade Five Mana

was

Nothing special.

sheet of paper, and walked up the stairs

Keeper said. "There's currently an

Shang stopped and waited.

can go," the Keeper said about

left and traveled to

the next five minutes,

at the branch and

how most of

his mission, travel to the

all, this was an Archmage. If the Named Agent didn't perfectly

of preparation and planning. That definitely

all, 150 Grade Five Mana Crystals represented 150 years of an

Five Mana Crystals could pay for about 15 Grade

a wide variety of abilities, such a difficult

accepting his payment, Shang checked the entrance to Training Room

Isolation Barrier was active,

Princess is now in there. At

Training Room Two

he

he returned

more and more time

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

one with some potential, he planned

that was that

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