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.

an Initial Ancestral Mage,

Shang curved towards the west, he saw another

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

immediately knew

two Empires had conquered

by the Lightning Manor. Conquering them had probably cost these two Empires a brutal amount

territories, they put two Defender Flags

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

down Peak Ancestral Mage Flags,

could break through rapidly and

to use Initial

even attack them since he

for Shang to

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

would be

what they wanted, but not for the reason one might

knew that the enemy wanted Shang

fact, the direction literally

soon as Shang would lift his Defender Flag, an extremely quick Initial Ancestral Mage would probably swoop in and plant their Attack Flag

appear around Shang's territory, barring him from

to move far enough to plant an Attack Flag into enemy

would

Defender Flag, he would be encased by Defender Flags

them, he would

past them, he

an hour, he would die as well since the

and also the reason why Kiran had told Shang to

Defender Flag didn't move, he

single communication with Kiran had probably cost the Lightning Manor a ridiculous number of Mana Crystals, and Kiran had only been

Shang was alone.

alone and surrounded

from the

How did Shang feel?

He didn't care.

anyone wanted to kill him, they would need to send someone stronger than him

a

as safe as ever, maybe even

this place, he was also protected from every

couldn't reach him, and if powerful people of other Empires entered here, they would be breaking

down in

could feel his bandages reacting strongly, but

guessed that he was probably being

waiting to see if he would fall

Kings watched Shang

his new situation, Shang didn't appear nervous or

Several days passed.