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 it belonged to the

curved towards the west, he saw

also a Defender Barrier for an Initial Ancestral Mage, but this one belonged to

knew

conquered the territories

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

the territories, they put two Defender Flags down that made it impossible for Shang to

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

Ancestral Mage Flags, but

could break through

that, they decided to

couldn't even attack them since he was too

impossible for Shang to go to the north, northwest, or

the southwest, south,

by going there, Shang would be going into enemy

they wanted, but

wanted Shang to

the direction

as Shang would lift his Defender Flag, an extremely quick Initial Ancestral Mage would probably swoop in and plant their Attack

Defender Flags would appear around Shang's territory, barring

to move far enough to plant an Attack Flag into

further, and Mage Kings would be allowed to kill

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

entered them,

past them,

an hour, he would die as well since the

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

Shang's Defender Flag didn't move, he

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

Shang was alone.

and surrounded by enemies

isolated from the

How did Shang feel?

He didn't care.

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

such a person didn't

as safe as ever, maybe even

he was also protected from every powerful

him, and if powerful people of other Empires entered here, they would

down in the

reacting strongly, but he

that he was probably being watched by over

to see if he would fall for

watched Shang for several

obviously realized the severity of his new situation,

Several days passed.