Sword God in a World of Magic

As silence returned to the surroundings, Shang's face turned towards the Patriarch.

He saw an extremely expensive Focus with five Amplifiers and several Space Rings on him.

It was quite enticing to just take that.

However, plundering the belongings of the targets of the mission was against the rules of the temple, with good reason.

There were too many ways to track belongings, and if one Agent overlooked even one of them, the entire branch of the temple might become compromised.

Additionally, part of the reason why the clients paid such a ridiculous fee was the loot.

Most of the clients that ordered a hit on an organization, person, or family had the means to collect the loot, and one of the main reasons very often for why they wanted that target dead was something the target owned.

Shang looked at the many corpses buried beneath the rubble.

Nearly every person had a Space Ring that harbored all of their wealth.

The amount of money buried in this place was at least five times as much as Shang would get paid.

Yet, Shang preferred the risk-free and secure payment.

SHING!

Shang summoned something from his Space Ring.

It was a large container of blood.

CRACK!

Shang slashed through the container with his sword, breaking it and dispersing all the contents onto the ground behind the Patriarch's corpse.

The blood landed in a special way that painted an image.

the Patriarch's corpse was now a two-meter wide blood-red silhouette of

no visible features on this silhouette, making it

was also one of the temple's

to not make the Enforcers dig too much into the matter, the Agents of the Temple

Blood, which was a circle with three stains of blood of varying sizes

personal symbols behind. The special kind of blood the temple used to create these symbols was proof enough

bloody silhouette Shang had painted with the blood was his

Named Agents,

walked over to the barrier and retrieved the emblem he had put on

transparent again and

the two medals again, Shang stepped past

outside, the area inside the barrier looked

the gigantic castle had collapsed, and there was no life anywhere close to or inside the

A dead ruin.

looked at the barrier

its normal amount of Mana Crystals again, which meant that it would remain active for around ten more days since no one was alive to refill its Mana

meant that, at the latest, people would take note of Shang's work in ten days. When one of these barriers ran out of Mana Crystals, the manufacturer that sold them would be informed, and

people would most likely

of these High Mages had important connections

to contact the High Mages, and after failing a couple of times, they would check up on them or directly call

would be discovered

be long gone

SHING!

Shang vanished.

the sky, bathing the entire world in a

huge slaughter had just taken place on

hills, and forests, all the light around him bent, hiding him

since it would be easier

invisible to most Spirit Senses, he wasn't completely invisible to

fluctuations Shang left behind while walking on the ground would mostly be hidden by the different forms of life

running through the forests, Shang had to avoid several

Zone Beasts stopped their strongest beasts