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

Judgment Palace used

Palace only had the two-star

already showcased the power of a well-placed Defender

was essentially blocking several strategic weapons

was how things

would remain here, and

Shang couldn't join.

Flags couldn't

made this trade quite detrimental to the Lightning Manor's

of the

the Empires would be allowed

Zone? After all, the Zone Shang was currently in was a

belonged to

There were two rules.

rule: In order to change a Zone, one Empire had to control over 50% of it. If

Zone still held control over a territory inside

rule was implemented to give the biggest

Shang would continue to be a

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

wanted to conquer this Zone, they needed to produce

would probably take a

meant that Shang was stuck

war would continue without

he feel about

Great!

could return

still kept an eye on the outside world

However, nothing was happening.

one was entering

barriers surrounding him

feeling of being watched became weaker

couple of careless glances

no one knew about the secret of Shang's bandages, which meant that they

that the Judgment Palace truly stopped caring

transformed into a

through his dead territory, he felt

10,000 kilometers belonged to

No one would enter.

No one would exit.

He was alone.

have it any

summoned his

drew a couple of curious glances

he doing

a couple of days, Shang only remained sitting in the middle