Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang had seen the person before the person had seen him.

They weren't traveling at their full speed, and maybe, Shang could escape before they saw him.

However, Shang just smirked and chuckled a bit.

'How interesting,' he thought. 'It seems like Gregorio hasn't been the most careful.'

A moment later, the person found Shang, and they just watched with shock.

This confirmed that they hadn't known that Shang was still alive but that they had only had a hunch.

Shang could feel the person looking at him, and the person could also feel Shang looking at them.

A moment later, a portal opened just 100,000 kilometers behind Shang. It wasn't close enough to count as melee range for Shang, but easily close enough for a Peak Mage King to fight him.

A moment later, an older man with an immaculately groomed suit walked out. The Custodian, Wester.

Wester looked at Shang with narrowed eyes while Shang just looked at the silver wall.

Shang hadn't hidden his new limbs, and Wester could see them in all their glory.

Shang chuckled a bit and turned to look at Wester with his black-and-white eyes. "Wester, what a pleasure to see you," he said with a smirk.

Wester's emotions were going crazy.

When Wester had talked to Gregorio, he had already noticed that Gregorio was acting strangely.

Gregorio had often talked about Shang when talking to Wester, but as soon as the Grand Tournament had passed, Gregorio had completely stopped talking about him.

It was almost like Shang had stopped existing in Gregorio's mind.

However, based on how Gregorio had acted when Shang had wanted to talk to him, Wester knew that Gregorio wouldn't just dump Shang like a piece of trash after he became useless.

At the very least, he would have lamented Shang's demise many times.

And yet, Gregorio had never talked about Shang again.

Wester had guessed that Shang might still be alive.

thing. After all, Shang belonged to the Lightning Manor, and they all worked

part was that Gregorio

know that Wester was the second-in-command of the Lightning Manor, and he had been the closest friend,

betrayed the Lightning Manor a single time. In fact,

kept

working for Gregorio, Wester had expected

And yet, he didn't.

and

wasn't a paranoid or secretive person. In fact,

and destructive that Gregorio didn't even dare to tell

as the first suspicions arose, Wester

more troublesome, Gregorio had stopped asking about the Child

single conversation between them had started with Gregorio asking about the

And then?

Nothing.

that sudden breakthrough that allowed

was such a monumental and

hadn't seemed to be researching Abominations at all in

created a suspicion in Wester's

Child of Calamity, and Gregorio

been against the Abominations, and it had even been

was it possible that someone like that could suddenly become the

these things had still only been guesses

of the

had been

It had felt unimportant.

something inside Wester told him that this

But he hesitated.

that location, the

Then what?

Child of Calamity, and Gregorio would be the

bit more

had served the Lightning Emperor

Wester was old, and he

he could just look

the unprecedented tournament