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 Defender Flags for the Ancestral Mage Realm

Palace only had the two-star

the power of a well-placed

essentially blocking

this was how

would remain here, and the

Shang couldn't join.

four Defender Flags couldn't

this trade quite

assignment of the

and the Empires would be allowed to reassign them every

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

if big parts of the Zone belonged

There were two rules.

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

over a territory inside a given Zone, they

implemented to give the biggest geniuses

rule was also the reason why Shang would

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

they needed to produce someone that could

that would probably take a long

that Shang was

war would continue without

did he feel

Great!

could return to training in

to be sure, Shang still kept an eye on the outside world for another couple of

However, nothing was happening.

one was entering his

surrounding

more, the feeling of being

Shang only felt a couple of careless glances from some powerful people every

knew about the secret of Shang's bandages, which meant that they also wouldn't know whether Shang knew they were looking at him or

meant that the Judgment Palace truly stopped

transformed into a

walked through his dead territory, he felt a profound feeling

kilometers belonged

No one would enter.

No one would exit.

He was alone.

wouldn't have

Shang summoned his humongous Isolation

of curious glances from

he doing with

sitting in the middle of