Sword God in a World of Magic

Several days passed.

Shang exited his inner world and killed the bird watcher.

After a couple of seconds, the barrier turned transparent again, and Shang waited in the middle.

As always, Shang looked calm and emotionless.

And then, he waited for his opponent.

Silence.

The barrier didn't become cloudy, which meant that no one had entered the barrier.

Some seconds later, Shang's Communication Crystal rang.

"Hold your position! No matter what!" came an urgent but unknown voice.

However, based on the aura Shang had felt, he knew exactly who had just spoken.

Kiran, the Catastrophe King.

Before Shang could answer, the Communication Crystal became silent.

Shang tried to contact some people of the Lightning Manor, but his Communication Crystal couldn't reach anyone.

He was isolated.

Shang moved to the edge of his territory without retrieving the flag to look out of the transparent barrier with his Spirit Sense.

At the southeastern end, there was nothing too surprising.

It was just the start of the Judgment Palace Empire.

There were no powerful Mages that Shang could see.

Then, Shang went to the southern end.

There was the Land and Sky Empire.

There was also no one there.

After that, Shang went to the east.

There was the Twilight Dusk Empire.

No noteworthy Mages present.

And when Shang reached the north, he realized what had happened.

To the north of Shang's barrier, he saw a different barrier.

for an Initial Ancestral Mage, and it

towards the west,

a Defender Barrier for an Initial Ancestral Mage, but this one belonged to the Land and

immediately knew what had

two Empires had conquered the territories

heavily defended by the Lightning Manor. Conquering them had probably cost

conquering the territories, they put two Defender Flags down that made

Zone was still assigned to Ancestral Mages, even though a big part of it had been captured by

have put down Peak Ancestral Mage Flags,

if Shang could break through rapidly

to use Initial Ancestral

couldn't even attack them since he

meant that it was impossible for Shang to

only travel to the southwest, south, southeast,

by going there, Shang would be going into enemy

that was what they wanted, but not for the reason one might

knew that the enemy wanted Shang

the direction literally

Defender Flag, an extremely quick Initial Ancestral Mage would probably swoop in

new Defender Flags would appear around Shang's territory, barring him

allowed to move far enough to plant an Attack Flag into enemy

Mage Kings would be allowed to

if he retrieved his Defender Flag, he would

them, he

past them, he

hour, he would die as well since the

plan and also the reason why Kiran

Flag didn't move, he could

forms of communication. The single communication with Kiran had probably cost the Lightning Manor a ridiculous number of Mana Crystals, and Kiran had only been able to say

Shang was alone.

surrounded by

isolated from the entire

How did Shang feel?

He didn't care.

to kill him, they would need to

a person didn't

as safe as ever, maybe even

this place, he was also protected from

reach him, and if powerful people of other Empires entered here, they

a while, Shang sat down in the middle of

reacting strongly, but he acted like

Shang guessed that he was probably

to see if he would fall for

Kings watched Shang

the severity of his new situation, Shang didn't appear nervous

Several days passed.