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.

but there were always

wasn't dead

was just very, very injured and in

Ice Princess didn't break

since Spike Ball now wasn't in his top

"Help… me…"

Ball barely managed to contact Shang

just ignored him and walked over to the

don't have to worry," Fire Pillar said with a bright smile. "I will release

also ignored Fire

Shang stopped behind the Keeper

in front of

Initial

Details… details… details… details…

Grade

mission was an

Nothing special.

and walked up the

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

Shang stopped and waited.

go," the Keeper said

left and traveled to the target's

minutes, Shang

back at the branch

was how most of

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

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

mission required a long time of preparation

also why this was such a high-paying job. After all, 150 Grade Five Mana Crystals represented 150 years of an

for about 15 Grade Five

had such a powerful Battle-Strength and since he had such a wide variety of abilities, such a difficult mission barely took him 15

checked

was active, but he doubted it

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

Room Two and

days later, he

he returned

and more time

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

found one with some potential, he

that was

he should follow, but that didn't mean that it would always