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

on top of that, the Judgment Palace used four of its five

only had the two-star

the power of

existing, Shang was essentially blocking several strategic

this was how

here, and

Shang couldn't join.

Defender Flags couldn't be

this

assignment of the

be allowed to reassign them every century, which would be coupled with a

decide which Zone? After all, the Zone Shang was currently in was a square with a

Zone belonged to different

There were two rules.

Zone, one Empire had to control over 50% of it. If there was no Empire controlling over 50% of the Zone, the Zone would

still held control over a territory inside a given Zone, they still had control over

second rule was implemented to give the biggest geniuses of each Empire

the reason why Shang would continue to be a pain in the ass for

Shang remained in his territory, the attackers couldn't change the Zone to something more favorable to them. They would need to send in

to conquer this Zone, they needed to produce someone that

that would probably take

that Shang

war would continue

did he feel

Great!

could return to training in

to be sure, Shang still kept an eye on the outside

However, nothing was happening.

one was

surrounding him

of being watched became weaker

Shang only felt a couple of careless glances from some powerful

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

Judgment Palace truly stopped caring about

had essentially transformed into a forbidden

his dead territory, he felt a profound feeling of

kilometers belonged

No one would enter.

No one would exit.

He was alone.

he wouldn't have it any

Shang summoned his

a couple of curious glances from the Mage Kings

was he doing

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