Sword God in a World of Magic

After realizing what the actual problem was, Shang told Lucin about the changes to his warrior's body that the Custodian had performed.

When Shang was done speaking, Lucin looked at him with a worried expression. "How do you feel?" he asked.

"Like someone is planning on killing me," Shang said.

"I can assure you that nobody within the Lightning Manor is planning on killing you yet," Lucin said.

"Yet?" Shang repeated.

"Well, you are essentially a competitor to the other Clouds since we can only send one King Contender into the Grand Tournament. It is obviously forbidden to kill your colleagues in the Lightning Manor, but that doesn't stop some of them. From time to time, I still have to execute one of the Clouds for failing or succeeding in a plot to assassinate another Cloud," Lucin explained.

"Right now, they barely know anything about you, but when they learn more about your true powers, some of them might plot to kill you."

Shang didn't like hearing that for multiple reasons.

'Great! I will also become the victim of actual assassinations, and with my newfound paranoia, it will become very difficult to discern who is actually out to get me. The friendliest and most normal people might appear like scheming enemies in my mind, and I might think that the actual scheming enemies are just nice people since I would think that I was just being paranoid.'

guess the best way is to treat everyone like they plan on killing me. Like that, I can't be

was one reason why Shang didn't like what Lucin had

to stop these

stop?" Lucin asked with a raised

me before they actually

can't do that. In the Lightning Manor, we say that people are innocent until proven guilty. Even if one of the Clouds meets you alone, far away from anyone, while being followed by a masked individual more powerful than them, you can't just assume that they are there to

there for a different reason. What if the masked individual

if people actually say that they will kill you, that's something different. At that point, you would have cause and an obvious show of

we can't just let you guys kill each other wrongfully since every Cloud's expenses can only be counted in Grade Seven Mana Crystals. Ignoring the fact that you would have killed someone of your own organization,

he had just heard. "You do realize that if someone is willing to go through with an actual attempt, they would have realized the actual danger of failing, which means they would only go through with it if they were 100% certain of

attempt will never just be

not true," Lucin said with quite some confidence. "You can ask a Bolt to act as your bodyguard, but they would request a part of the resources you want. Killing a Cloud is already difficult, but

immediately attract the attention of some Thunders and maybe even a Mage King, and there is nearly no way to kill a Peak Mage Lord in an instant. You would need

to kill anyone from the Lightning Manor, but if I want to be safe from the people

"Is that right?"

know that the system isn't perfect since it favors a malicious actor in a certain sense, but we can't have it any other way if we actually want to believe in the good of

time, but that would also make a lot of you uncomfortable since you have secret