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.'

like they

why Shang didn't like what Lucin had

to stop these assassination attempts from occurring?" Shang

stop?" Lucin asked with a raised

that wants to kill me before they actually go through with the

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 assassinate

the masked individual was just one of the Bolts that's following the Cloud that doesn't like to

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 towards you, but even then, you

in Grade Seven Mana Crystals. Ignoring the

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

an actual attempt will never just be

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

even a Mage King, and there is nearly no way to kill a Peak Mage Lord in an instant. You would need a Thunder for that, and nothing a Cloud can offer a Thunder would be

still wasn't a fan of this policy. "So, to summarize, I am not allowed to kill anyone from the Lightning Manor, but if I want to be safe from the people of the Lightning Manor, I need to spend a ridiculous number of resources for

"Is that right?"

a certain sense, but we can't have it any other

of you all the time, but that would also make a lot of you uncomfortable since you