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.

Initial Ancestral Mage, and it belonged to

the west, he

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

knew what

had conquered the territories behind

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

territories, they put two Defender Flags down that made it impossible

still assigned to Ancestral Mages, even though a big

Peak Ancestral Mage Flags, but

through rapidly and destroy

of that, they decided to use Initial Ancestral

Shang couldn't even attack them since

for Shang to go to the north, northwest, or

the southwest, south, southeast, east,

by going there, Shang would be

wanted, but not

knew that the enemy wanted Shang to leave

direction

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

Defender Flags would appear

allowed to move far enough to plant an

Mage Kings would

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

entered them,

he flew past

an hour, he would die as

plan and also the reason why Kiran had told Shang to hold his

long as Shang's Defender Flag

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

Shang was alone.

alone and surrounded

from

How did Shang feel?

He didn't care.

him, they would need to send someone stronger than him that was on his

such a person

safe

place, he was also protected from every powerful

if powerful people of other Empires entered here, they would

a while, Shang sat down in the middle of his

feel his bandages reacting strongly, but he acted

was probably being watched by over 15

to see if he would fall for

watched Shang

of his new situation, Shang

Several days passed.