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.

Ancestral Mage, and

towards the west,

Initial Ancestral Mage,

immediately knew what

conquered the territories behind

by the Lightning Manor. Conquering them had probably cost

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

was still assigned to Ancestral Mages, even though a

put down Peak Ancestral

through rapidly and destroy their

decided to

Shang couldn't even attack them since he was too

was impossible for Shang to go to the north,

could only travel to the southwest, south, southeast,

there, Shang would be going into

but not

the enemy wanted Shang to leave

the direction literally

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

time, new Defender Flags would appear around Shang's

allowed to move far enough to plant

further, and Mage Kings would be allowed

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

he entered them, he

he flew past them, he

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

Kiran had told Shang to hold his position, no matter

Flag didn't

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.

surrounded by enemies on

isolated from

How did Shang feel?

He didn't care.

they would need to send someone stronger

such a

as safe as ever,

he was also protected from every powerful

if powerful people of other Empires entered here,

sat down in

feel his bandages reacting strongly,

was probably being watched by over 15 Mage

all waiting to see if he would fall for the

Kings watched Shang for

had obviously realized the severity of his new situation, Shang didn't appear nervous or scared in any

Several days passed.