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.

Barrier for an Initial Ancestral Mage, and

Shang curved towards the west,

a Defender Barrier for an Initial Ancestral Mage, but this

knew what had

two Empires had conquered the territories

territories had been heavily defended by the Lightning Manor. Conquering them had probably

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

though a big part of it had been captured by

Ancestral Mage

break through rapidly and

they decided to use Initial Ancestral

couldn't even attack them since

was impossible for Shang to go to the north,

to the southwest, south, southeast,

by going there, Shang would be going into

what they wanted, but not for the reason one might

knew that the enemy wanted Shang to leave

direction literally didn't

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

time, new Defender Flags would appear

to move far enough to plant an

would be allowed to kill

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

entered them, he

past them, he would

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

reason why Kiran had told Shang to hold his

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

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

Shang was alone.

was alone and surrounded by

was isolated from the

How did Shang feel?

He didn't care.

wanted to kill him, they would need to send

such a person didn't

as safe as ever,

he was also

him, and if powerful people of other Empires entered

down in

bandages reacting strongly,

Shang guessed that he was probably

to see if he would fall for the

Mage Kings watched Shang for several

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

Several days passed.