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.

for an Initial Ancestral Mage, and it belonged to

towards the west, he

Ancestral Mage,

immediately knew what had

Empires had conquered the territories behind

had probably cost

conquering the territories, they put two Defender Flags

even though a big part of it had been captured by the

have put down Peak Ancestral

if Shang could break through rapidly and destroy

they decided to

even attack them since he

for Shang to go to

only travel to the

there, Shang would be going into

that was what they wanted, but not

the enemy wanted Shang to leave

direction literally

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

the same time, new Defender Flags would appear

far enough to plant an Attack Flag

and Mage Kings would be allowed to kill

he would be encased by Defender Flags he couldn't

he entered them,

he flew past them, he would

die as well

was their plan and also the reason why Kiran had told Shang

as Shang's Defender Flag

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

Shang was alone.

alone and surrounded

was isolated from the

How did Shang feel?

He didn't care.

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

such a person didn't

felt just as safe as ever, maybe even

place, he was also protected from every powerful

people of other Empires

Shang sat down in the

strongly, but he acted like

that he was probably being

waiting to see if he

Mage Kings watched Shang for

though he had obviously realized the severity of his new

Several days passed.