Sword God in a World of Magic

One led Shang to an isolated place at the side of the hill and asked him about what had happened.

Shang told everything to One without keeping any secrets. He told him the same stuff he told the officer.

"Honestly, the signal flare you gave me might have saved my life," Shang said. "I didn't need our superior to win the battle, but if the enemy had more time, the other four would have died. With them dead, everyone would have focused on me."

"I might have still won, but I wouldn't have been in any position to block the Firebombs, which would result in the True Path Stage beast going on a rampage."

Shang was telling the truth. If the enemy thought that they had far more time, they wouldn't have thrown the Firebombs this early.

One had actually saved Shang's life to some degree.

"I'm paying you good money," One said with a voice that told Shang that he thought this issue was irrelevant. "But there is something more important."

"Which is?" Shang asked.

"Don't you think it's strange?" One asked.

"What?"

"Imagine you are responsible for over a hundred warriors, and one person that's responsible for 30 of those warriors might very likely be a traitor."

"Would you let him continue assuming control over these 30 warriors for a week?" One asked.

Shang remained silent for a bit.

"No, I wouldn't."

"That's the thing," One said. "It's too strange. If one of my commanders were accused of being a traitor, I would immediately send someone to apprehend them. Additionally, we arrived here in a single day from the Storm Eagle Zone. Do you honestly think that there isn't a second Late General Stage warrior in the town near us that can assume control?"

"Why did the officer get a full week of full power over this area?"

"It doesn't make any sense."

Shang frowned as he looked down, but his face was hidden behind his mask.

One was making sense.

and he wasn't stupid, but he wasn't very experienced when it came

and he wasn't interested in leading others. He thought leading others to be a pain in the

Shang hadn't

to report himself to his superior was a good sign that he wasn't a traitor. After all, why would a traitor reveal himself to his superior when

of them without many issues. After killing them, he would have simply reported that

would also be suspicious, but it was still better than telling his superior

officer hadn't contacted his actual superior, but that possibility was quickly

had arrived. If that superior didn't have a certain status in Duke Whirlwind's lands, the Circle

superior was

left only one

superior of the officer was also

at the

have given the officer one week to do as much damage as possible. There is a high likelihood that he will gather all the traitors in

weeks. In the end, we would have lost around 30 General Stage warriors while the enemy gained Hundreds of thousands of gold

that, the superior might not have informed the appropriate channels regarding the officer's confession. With every witness dead, the superior

guess Duke Whirlwind

everything is only conjecture. Sure, it makes a lot of sense, but there is no proof. If I report it like this, the officer will be taken down, but the superior

will be

looked over at

plan?" he

the soldiers are still on

He is two levels above us, and he can kill every soldier

him to take the initiative, we're dead

haven't told me what your plan is,"

said with some frustration. "We have to gather a

several seconds as he looked at

an easy decision," Shang said

is this not an easy decision?!"

reported to his superior. It might actually be possible that

that, if

Shang explained. "When you hired me, I told you that I would follow

you with this, sorry,"