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.

was now a two-meter wide blood-red silhouette

on this silhouette, making it seem more like a

mark was also one of the

into the matter, the Agents of the Temple of Blood

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

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

painted with the blood

was one of the Named Agents, and his codename

the barrier and retrieved the emblem he had put on

barrier turned transparent again and acted like

two medals again, Shang stepped past the

inside the barrier looked

of the gigantic castle had collapsed, and there was

A dead ruin.

looked at the barrier once

meant that it would remain active

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 they would send someone to

most likely notice everything before

High Mages had died, and nearly all of these

contact the High Mages, and after failing a couple of times, they would check up

everything would be discovered in five hours

would be long gone by

SHING!

Shang vanished.

conspicuously in the sky, bathing the entire

had

through the mountains, hills, and forests, all the light around him bent, hiding him from all manners

the sky since it would be easier to find him

wasn't completely invisible to the

would mostly be hidden by the

the forests, Shang had

place where Zone Beasts stopped their strongest