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.

a Defender Barrier for an Initial Ancestral Mage, and it belonged to

towards the

an Initial Ancestral Mage, but this one belonged to

knew what

had conquered

been heavily defended by the Lightning Manor. Conquering them had probably cost these two Empires a

Defender Flags down that

still assigned to Ancestral Mages, even though a

could have put down Peak Ancestral Mage Flags, but that would

break through

that, they decided to use

couldn't even attack them

impossible for Shang to go to the

could only travel to the southwest, south, southeast, east, and

there, Shang would be going into enemy

what they wanted, but not

enemy wanted Shang

fact, the direction literally

an extremely quick Initial Ancestral Mage would probably swoop in and plant their Attack Flag down on Shang's

the same time, new Defender Flags would appear around Shang's territory, barring him from

move far enough to plant an Attack Flag into enemy

further, and Mage Kings would be allowed to

retrieved his Defender Flag, he would be encased by Defender Flags

them, he would

flew past them,

he would die as well since the territory would vanish under

Kiran had told Shang to hold

long as Shang's Defender Flag didn't

of communication. The single communication with Kiran had probably cost the Lightning Manor a

Shang was alone.

was alone and surrounded by enemies on all

from

How did Shang feel?

He didn't care.

him, they would need to

such a person

as safe as ever, maybe

he was also protected from every

couldn't reach him, and if powerful people of

while, Shang sat down in the middle of his

his bandages reacting strongly, but he acted like

Shang guessed that he was probably being watched by over 15 Mage

were probably all waiting to see

Kings watched

obviously realized the severity of his new situation, Shang didn't appear nervous or scared

Several days passed.