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.

mean that

used four of its five Defender Flags for the Ancestral Mage Realm to

Judgment Palace only had the

already showcased the power of a well-placed Defender

by existing, Shang was essentially blocking several strategic weapons

how things would

remain here, and

Shang couldn't join.

Flags couldn't

was one thing that made this trade quite

of

Empires would be allowed to reassign them every century,

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

Zone belonged to

There were two rules.

Zone, one Empire had to control over 50% of it. If there was

Zone still held control over a territory inside a

implemented to give the biggest geniuses of each Empire

reason why Shang would continue

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

Zone, they needed to produce someone

that would probably take

Shang was stuck

war would

he

Great!

could return to training

eye on the outside world for

However, nothing was happening.

one was entering his

barriers surrounding

more, the feeling of being watched

couple of careless

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

Palace truly stopped caring about him and what he

transformed into a forbidden

walked through his dead territory, he

kilometers belonged

No one would enter.

No one would exit.

He was alone.

have it any

Shang summoned his

a couple of curious glances from the Mage Kings

was he doing

of days, Shang only remained sitting in the middle