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

curved towards the west, he saw

Barrier for an Initial Ancestral Mage, but this one belonged to the

immediately knew what had

Empires had conquered the

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

two Defender Flags down that made

to Ancestral Mages, even though a big part of it had

put down Peak Ancestral Mage Flags, but that would be

if Shang could break through rapidly

to use

this, Shang couldn't even attack them since he was too

that it was impossible for Shang to go to the north, northwest, or

travel to the southwest, south,

there, Shang would be going into

they wanted, but not for the

enemy wanted Shang

direction literally

Defender Flag, an extremely quick Initial Ancestral

Defender Flags would appear around Shang's territory,

only allowed to move far enough to plant an Attack Flag into

Mage Kings would be allowed to

Defender Flag, he would be encased by Defender Flags he

he entered them, he

past them,

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

also the reason why Kiran had told Shang to hold his position,

Defender Flag didn't move,

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

Shang was alone.

was alone and surrounded by enemies

was isolated from the entire

How did Shang feel?

He didn't care.

would need to send

such a person didn't

felt just as safe as

also protected from

and if powerful people

down in the

could feel his bandages reacting strongly, but he acted

moment, Shang guessed that he was probably being watched by over 15

probably all waiting to see

Mage Kings watched Shang

even though he had obviously realized the severity of his new situation, Shang

Several days passed.