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.

that didn't mean

that, the Judgment Palace used four

Palace only had the

already showcased the power of a well-placed Defender

blocking several strategic weapons from

this was how things

would remain here, and the opponent would

Shang couldn't join.

Defender Flags couldn't be

that made this trade quite

assignment of

allowed to

was, who would get to decide which Zone? After all, the Zone Shang was currently in was a square with a length

if big parts of the Zone belonged to different Empires? Who would

There were two rules.

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

control over a territory inside a

was implemented to give the biggest geniuses of each Empire

Shang would continue to be a

Zone to something more favorable to them. They would

conquer this Zone, they needed

would probably

that Shang was stuck

would continue

he feel about

Great!

he could return to training

still kept an eye

However, nothing was happening.

was entering his

surrounding him

more, the feeling of being watched

couple of careless glances from some powerful

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

that the Judgment Palace truly stopped

essentially transformed into a forbidden

Shang walked through his dead territory, he felt a profound feeling

kilometers belonged

No one would enter.

No one would exit.

He was alone.

have

summoned his humongous

curious glances from

was he

days, Shang only remained sitting in the