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.

Defender Barrier for an Initial Ancestral Mage, and it belonged to

towards the west, he

also a Defender Barrier for an Initial Ancestral Mage, but

immediately knew

two Empires had conquered the

heavily defended by the Lightning Manor. Conquering them had probably cost these

two Defender Flags down that

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

could have put down Peak Ancestral

if Shang could break through rapidly and destroy their

they decided to use Initial Ancestral Mage

even attack them since he

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

only travel to the southwest, south, southeast,

would be going into

what they wanted, but not for the reason

that the enemy wanted Shang to leave his

fact, the direction literally didn't

his Defender Flag, an extremely quick Initial Ancestral Mage

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

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

and Mage Kings would

he retrieved his Defender Flag, he would be

entered them, he would

flew past them, he would

die

and also the reason why Kiran had told Shang to hold his

Shang's Defender Flag didn't

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

Shang was alone.

and surrounded by

isolated from the entire

How did Shang feel?

He didn't care.

need to send someone stronger

a person didn't

felt just as safe as ever, maybe even

also protected from every powerful

Manor couldn't reach him, and if powerful people of other

down in the middle of his

strongly, but he acted like he didn't

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

all waiting to see if he

watched Shang for several

though he had obviously realized the severity of his new situation, Shang didn't appear nervous or

Several days passed.