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

the west, he

Barrier for an Initial Ancestral Mage, but this

immediately knew

two Empires had conquered the

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

put two Defender Flags down that made it impossible for Shang to

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

Ancestral Mage

through rapidly and destroy their

of that, they decided to

this, Shang couldn't even attack

Shang to go to the north,

travel to the southwest, south, southeast,

going there, Shang would be

but not for the

enemy wanted

the direction

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

new Defender Flags would appear around Shang's territory, barring him from moving literally

far enough

Kings would be allowed

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

entered them, he would

past

waited for an hour, he would die as well since the territory would

the reason why Kiran had told Shang to hold

as Shang's Defender Flag didn't move,

blocking all forms of communication. 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 by enemies

was isolated from

How did Shang feel?

He didn't care.

to kill him, they would need to

such a person didn't

just as safe

he was also protected

reach him, and if powerful people of other Empires entered

while, Shang sat down in the

could feel his bandages reacting strongly, but he acted like

he was probably being

probably all waiting to see if he

Kings watched

obviously realized the severity of his new situation, Shang didn't

Several days passed.