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

Shang curved towards the west,

a Defender Barrier for an Initial Ancestral Mage,

immediately knew what had

conquered the territories

Conquering them had probably

the territories, they put two Defender

still assigned to Ancestral Mages, even though a big part of it

down Peak Ancestral Mage Flags, but that would be

break through

of that, they decided to use Initial Ancestral

couldn't even attack

meant that it was impossible for Shang

travel to the southwest, south, southeast,

would be going into

what they wanted, but not for the

wanted Shang to leave

direction

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

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

move far enough to plant

would be allowed to

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

entered them, he would

past them,

he waited for an hour, he would die

plan and also the reason why Kiran had told Shang

as Shang's Defender Flag

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

Shang was alone.

was alone and surrounded by enemies on all

from the entire

How did Shang feel?

He didn't care.

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

a person

felt just as safe as ever, maybe

was also

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

while, Shang sat down in the middle

his bandages reacting strongly, but he acted like

that he was probably being

waiting to see if he would fall for

Kings watched Shang

the severity of his new

Several days passed.