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 Twilight Dusk

the west, he saw another

Mage, but this one

immediately knew

Empires had conquered the

had probably cost these two Empires a brutal amount of resources

two Defender Flags down that made it

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

put down Peak Ancestral Mage Flags, but that would be

if Shang could break through rapidly and destroy

decided to

Shang couldn't even attack them

for Shang

only travel to the

by going there, Shang would be going

what they wanted, but not for the reason one might

that the enemy wanted Shang

the direction literally

an extremely quick Initial Ancestral Mage would probably swoop in and plant their

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

allowed to move far enough to

Mage Kings would be

if he retrieved his Defender Flag, he would be encased by Defender Flags he couldn't

entered them, he

past them,

hour, he would die as well

reason why Kiran had told Shang to hold his position, no matter

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

the Lightning Manor a ridiculous number

Shang was alone.

was alone and surrounded by enemies on

from the

How did Shang feel?

He didn't care.

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

such a person

as safe as ever, maybe even

he was also protected from every

Manor couldn't reach him, and if powerful people

down in the

strongly, but he acted like he didn't

he was probably being watched by over 15

all waiting to see if he would fall for the

Mage Kings watched Shang

obviously realized the severity of his new situation, Shang

Several days passed.