Sword God in a World of Magic

"Sir, the person you've asked for has arrived."

"Thanks," Shang answered the town planner before flying over to a new person that had just entered his town.

"Welcome to my town," Shang spoke politely to the person floating in front of him.

The woman floating in front of Shang chuckled politely. "Thank you, Town Lord," she said. "I've heard that you are interested in buying several Isolation Chambers?"

The person in front of Shang was a woman with long and beautiful grey hair wearing expensive golden robes. She was an Early Ancestral Mage.

"Correct," Shang answered. "I've had some less-than-savory people skulking around my town, and since I am a follower of the mindfree doctrine, I can't just read their minds. That's why I want a couple of Isolation Chambers."

Reading one's mind was the most intrusive act one could possibly be, and there were several laws for exactly this act.

Depending on the Empire that ruled the land, the laws were a bit different.

In the Lightning Manor's territory, reading someone's mind was prohibited. Of course, the Areas were different since they were isolated.

The mind was something sacred, and if one wanted to read someone else's mind, one would need to get permission from the Lightning Manor, which wasn't easy.

Shang lived in the Twilight Dusk Family's territory, and their rules were a bit different.

The Twilight Dusk Family was more open to reading minds, but they also weren't completely open.

Reading someone's mind was essentially the same as killing someone in the Twilight Dusk Family's territory.

If you had a very good reason and justification for reading someone's mind, it was fine, but just randomly doing it when hiring someone, for example, was a no-go.

Of course, as a Town Lord, Shang couldn't just do whatever he wanted. His town was part of the Twilight Dusk Family, and he had to follow the general laws of the Empire.

If he wanted to kill someone or read someone's mind, he had to have an actual reason.

He couldn't just do it because he wanted to.

doctrine that Shang had talked about earlier was a specific ideology that

the mindfree doctrine believed that minds

Shang's town, he couldn't just kill them or read their minds. However, he could keep them in jail

wasn't the only thing that would allow one to find

in front of Shang was

and we're quite thankful," she said as she laughed politely. "After all, we wouldn't be where we are

how our Isolation Chambers

"Vaguely," Shang said.

nodded. "Well, let me explain it in more detail. We will be using special materials and Magic Circles to completely isolate someone from the outside world. The inside and the outside of the chamber

out. The isolation puts a significant strain on someone's mind, and the

feeling of approaching death. If we were talking about normal humans, you could view it as slowly asphyxiating someone over three

depending on how it is used, an Isolation Chamber can also

details of the Isolation Chamber for the next couple of minutes, and Shang just nodded

I would like to commission three of them whole and one more as individual pieces of metal in case the other

woman's smile widened. "No problem. How strong do

an Archmage to escape and

big should they be? How do you want

answered a couple

while, the woman nodded and handed over a sheet of

bill with all

Grade Six Mana

bill and summoned 25 Grade

brightly, created a copy, handed the copy to Shang, and pocketed the

to his castle,

huge rectangular holes and motioned for the woman

SHING!

and rectangular objects appeared inside the hole, and the woman summoned several more

town were shining with complex runes as the

hour, she was

a smile. "The three