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.

lot, and he wasn't stupid, but he

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

of that, Shang hadn't

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 the only witnesses were in an isolated location and

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

course, this would also be suspicious, but it was still better

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

that superior didn't have a certain status in Duke

meant that the superior was actually

left only one

officer was

at the

to do as much damage as possible. There is a high likelihood that he will gather all the traitors in the camp and kill all the loyal

of valuable materials over the last couple of weeks. In the end, we would have lost around 30 General Stage warriors while the

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

guess Duke Whirlwind was

If I report it like this, the officer

superior will be warned, and he will

looked over at

plan?"

tomorrow since all the soldiers are still on high alert due to the battle, but they

the officer separates us, we will all die one by one. He is two

him to take the initiative, we're

me what your plan is," Shang

to gather a strong force and kill the officer before he

remained silent for several seconds

an easy decision,"

you talking about? How is this not an easy

and the officer has already been reported to his superior. It might actually be possible that

to take the officer's life, I would be tried as a traitor. On top of that, if he actually manages to contact someone before his death, I might not even manage

right now. If I kill him, I will be going against my primary mission," Shang explained. "When you hired

help you with this, sorry," Shang