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

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

had the

power of

was essentially blocking several strategic

how

here, and

Shang couldn't join.

four Defender Flags

made this trade quite detrimental

of

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

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

big parts of the Zone belonged to different Empires?

There were two rules.

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

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

to give the biggest geniuses of each

why Shang would continue to be a pain

Zone to something more favorable to them. They would need to

Zone, they needed to produce someone

probably

meant that Shang was stuck

would

he

Great!

return to

kept an eye on the outside

However, nothing was happening.

was

barriers surrounding him

more, the feeling of being watched became weaker

felt a couple of

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

that the Judgment Palace truly stopped caring about

transformed into a forbidden

his dead territory, he felt a profound

kilometers belonged to

No one would enter.

No one would exit.

He was alone.

wouldn't have it any other

summoned his humongous

a couple of curious glances from

he

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