Sword God in a World of Magic

The three of them looked with shock at Shang for quite some time.

Earlier, Shang had seemed a bit uncertain. He had acted like a new member of the Hibye that wasn't sure what he should do.

But now, there was no more uncertainty.

His Aura was stable and cold, with no anxiety or nervousness.

And then, Cindy broke out into laughter.

The other two looked at her with a bit of confusion.

Shang didn't react.

"You're a funny guy, Shang," Cindy said. She had heard of Shang's name when the Communication Crystal had told her that her duel had been accepted. "You acted all nervous in order to bait us into fighting you."

Cindy snorted. "But that doesn't change anything. Power is power, and we are Mages while you are a warrior."

"What's the point of accepting all our duels when you are going to die to Erel anyway?"

The two others calmed down as well and looked at Shang with a mix of pity and disdain.

"Where do we fight?" Shang asked again.

"We have to wait for Lucin," Rowan said with a calm tone. "He has to officiate everything."

Shang only nodded.

Then, everyone waited.

The three of them were talking like nothing out of the ordinary had happened, while Shang only waited in silence.

A couple of minutes later, Lucin finally appeared.

bolt into his human

his Communication Crystal. "Alright, we have three life-and-death duels. It's you three

Everyone nodded.

nodded and started to give everyone a run-down on how

duel with Erel first, he would be his first opponent, and the duel would take place in five days in the big arena near

two duels would be held after Shang had recovered from

that it would, at most, take a couple of hours for him to

of that, all three duels were scheduled for the same day, with the latter two having a

please hand over

just that. The policy to hand over the Space Rings immediately existed to make sure that the winner would truly get all the

assets," Lucin

in several big

and to get even more money, they invested a lot of it. Like that, they would gain even more resources over the

Icy Bastion, but he also said that it wasn't his anymore. Nevertheless, Shang tried to be as honest as

haven't declared within the next five days, you will be executed before that moment. So,

No one said anything.

everything," Lucin said before activating his Communication

seconds, several Mage Lords

watched and followed by three Mage Lords to make

got split between the four

Lucin said with a nod before

focused on the three Mage Lords

don't enjoy killing, but that's something I have to

anything and flew

coldly harumphed and

the three Mage Lords that were supposed to watch him had

quite certain that the three of them were still watching him closely. They probably just kept themselves hidden so as not

Three Mage Lords.

would be nearly impossible to pull anything with such a powerful

be able to contact anyone else to transfer their wealth or to ask

assassin would need to get past three