Sword God in a World of Magic

Over the next couple of days, Shang's body recovered.

The Judgment Palace stopped sending in new people, which was not what Shang had expected.

He had expected that they would either send someone to kill him or restart with killing Archmages. After all, they couldn't possibly be this unlucky again, right?

Yet, it seemed like they had abandoned their plan.

When Shang was fully healed, he flew through his territory to look at the surrounding barriers.

That was when Shang saw that the colors of the surrounding barriers had changed.

Shang was now encompassed by the Judgment Palace.

Interestingly enough, the Judgment Palace had effectively used all their Defender Flags to stop Shang from moving.

A year ago, they had been prepared to intercept Shang, but that was probably no longer the case.

Instead of constantly having to keep an eye on him, they decided to simply build him in and ignore him.

Covering the east and northeast was a barrier for Ancestral Mages with four stars.

Covering the north and northwest was a barrier for Ancestral Mages with one star.

Covering the west and southwest was a barrier for Ancestral Mages with five stars.

And the south and southeast were covered by one with three stars.

Shang couldn't leave his territory unless he decided to assault another territory.

Naturally, three of the four barriers were essentially impossible for Shang to tackle.

The one-star one was just straight-up impossible, and the four and five-star ones probably had people with fourfold Spirit Senses defending them.

Shang could jump one level against someone with a fourfold Spirit Sense, but not two nor three.

The only one Shang could attempt to attack was the south and southeast one since it only had three stars, representing a Mid Ancestral Mage.

However, attacking and conquering that territory would move Shang further into the Judgment Palace instead of away from it.

After that, since he couldn't defend two territories at once, the Judgment Palace would conquer the territory he just left behind, making it even easier to bunker him in.

Even more, assuming Shang continued, he would eventually reach a Zone that wasn't meant for Ancestral Mages to fight, which would stop his advance.

At that point, the three Defender Flags from the other directions would probably have moved, enclosing him in the corner.

This reminded Shang a bit of chess.

Shang was stuck.

didn't mean that he was

Ancestral Mages busy, and on top of that, the Judgment Palace used four of its five Defender

only had the

the power of a

existing, Shang was essentially blocking

how

remain here, and the opponent would ignore

Shang couldn't join.

Defender Flags couldn't be

was one thing that made this trade quite

assignment of the

assigned one year ago, and the Empires would be allowed to reassign them every century,

to decide which Zone? After all, the Zone Shang was currently in was a square with a length and width of 500,000

Zone belonged

There were two rules.

it. If there was no Empire controlling over 50% of the Zone,

rule: If the original owner of the Zone still held control over a territory inside a

was implemented to give the biggest geniuses of each Empire more

reason why Shang would continue

his territory, the attackers couldn't change the Zone to something more favorable to

they needed to produce someone

that would probably take a long

meant that Shang was

war would continue

he

Great!

could return to training in

to be sure, Shang still kept an eye on the outside world for another couple

However, nothing was happening.

one was entering his

surrounding him weren't

the feeling of being watched became weaker and

only felt a couple of

secret of Shang's bandages, which meant that they also wouldn't know whether Shang knew they were looking at him or

this meant that the Judgment Palace truly stopped

essentially transformed into

Shang walked through his dead territory,

kilometers belonged to

No one would enter.

No one would exit.

He was alone.

wouldn't have

his humongous

a couple of curious glances

he

Shang only remained sitting in