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.

was a Defender Barrier for an Initial Ancestral

curved towards the west,

Ancestral Mage,

knew what

two Empires had conquered

the Lightning Manor. Conquering them had probably cost these two Empires a brutal amount of resources and

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

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

have put down Peak Ancestral Mage Flags,

if Shang could break through rapidly and

decided to use Initial Ancestral Mage

attack them

for Shang to go to the

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

there, Shang would be going into enemy

they wanted, but not for the reason one

enemy wanted Shang to

fact, the direction literally didn't

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

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

enough

further, and Mage Kings would be

would be

them,

flew past them,

an hour, he would die as well

was their plan and also the reason why Kiran had told Shang to hold his position, no

long as Shang's Defender Flag didn't move, he

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

Shang was alone.

and surrounded

from the entire

How did Shang feel?

He didn't care.

would need to send someone stronger than him

such a person didn't

felt just as safe as

also protected from every

people of other Empires

while, Shang sat down in the middle

feel his bandages reacting strongly,

guessed that he was probably being watched by over

were probably all waiting to see if he would fall

Mage Kings watched Shang for

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

Several days passed.