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.'

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

didn't like what Lucin

I am not allowed to stop these assassination attempts from

stop?" Lucin asked

that wants to kill me before they actually go through with

innocent until proven guilty. Even if one of the Clouds meets you alone, far away from anyone, while being followed by a masked individual

might look like they are planning on doing it, but they could also just be there for a different reason. What if the masked individual was just one of the Bolts that's following the Cloud

kill people because they look suspicious. Sure, 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 malicious intent

counted in Grade Seven Mana Crystals. Ignoring the fact that you would have killed someone of your own

realize that if someone is willing to go through with an actual attempt, they

never just be an

would request a part of the resources you want. Killing a Cloud is already difficult, but killing a Bolt is even more difficult since

to kill a Peak

"So, to summarize, I am not allowed to kill anyone from the Lightning Manor, but if I want to be

"Is that right?"

sense, but we can't have it any other

Bolt to supervise all of you all the time, but that would also make a lot of you uncomfortable since you have secret methods of