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 he

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

Palace only had the

had already showcased the power of a

Shang was essentially blocking

was how

would remain here, and the opponent would ignore

Shang couldn't join.

four Defender Flags couldn't be

one thing that made this trade quite detrimental to

assignment of

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

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

belonged to different

There were two rules.

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

territory inside a given Zone, they still had control over it, no matter how much

second rule was implemented to give the biggest geniuses of each

would continue to be a pain in the ass for the

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

Zone, they needed to produce someone that could

probably

that Shang was stuck

would continue without

did he feel

Great!

return to training

Shang still kept an eye on the outside

However, nothing was happening.

was entering

surrounding him

more, the feeling of being watched became weaker and

couple of careless glances from some powerful people

meant that they also wouldn't know whether Shang knew they were looking at him or

that the Judgment Palace truly stopped caring about

transformed into a

through his dead territory,

kilometers belonged

No one would enter.

No one would exit.

He was alone.

he wouldn't have

his

drew a couple of curious

was he doing with

of days, Shang only remained sitting in the middle of his Isolation Chamber, the entrance barely