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.'

treat everyone like they plan on killing me. Like

reason why Shang didn't like what Lucin had said, but

not allowed to stop these

do you mean with stop?" Lucin asked

the person that wants to kill me before they actually go through with the attempt,"

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

planning on doing it, but they could also just be there for a different reason. What if the masked individual was

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

the Lightning Manor, and 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

through with an actual attempt, they would have realized the actual danger of failing, which means they would only go

never just be an

of the resources

Peak Mage Lords would 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

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

"Is that right?"

sighed. "I 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

also make a lot of you uncomfortable since you have