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.

Defender Barrier for an Initial Ancestral

curved towards the west,

was also a Defender Barrier for an Initial Ancestral Mage, but this

immediately knew what

conquered the

by the Lightning Manor. Conquering them had probably cost

the territories, they put two Defender Flags down that made it impossible for Shang to

though a big part of it had been

have put down Peak Ancestral Mage Flags, but that

break through rapidly and

decided to use Initial Ancestral

even attack them since he was too

for Shang

to the southwest, south, southeast,

by going there, Shang would be going into enemy

what they wanted, but not for the reason one might

the enemy wanted Shang to leave his

fact, the direction literally

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

Flags would appear around Shang's territory, barring him

allowed to move far enough to plant

further, and Mage Kings would be allowed to kill

his Defender Flag, he would be encased

them,

flew past them, he would

if he waited for an hour, he would die as well since

plan and also the reason why Kiran had told

Shang's Defender Flag

other Empires were blocking all forms of communication. The single communication with Kiran had probably cost the Lightning Manor a ridiculous number of

Shang was alone.

and surrounded by

was isolated from the

How did Shang feel?

He didn't care.

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

such a person didn't

just as safe as ever, maybe

also protected from every powerful

if powerful people of other Empires

in the middle of his own

reacting strongly, but he acted like he didn't

this moment, Shang guessed that he was probably being watched by

all waiting to see

watched Shang for

of his new situation, Shang didn't

Several days passed.