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

no visible features on this silhouette, making it seem

mark was also

Enforcers dig too much into the matter,

of Blood, which was a circle with three

blood the temple used to create these symbols was proof

bloody silhouette Shang had painted with the blood

of the Named Agents, and his codename

walked over to the barrier

again and

again, Shang stepped past the

the area inside the barrier looked like a

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

A dead ruin.

at the barrier

would remain

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,

likely notice

nearly all of these High Mages

try to contact the High Mages, and after failing a couple

be discovered in five hours at

be long

SHING!

Shang vanished.

hung brightly and conspicuously in the sky, bathing the entire world in a warm glow of

difficult to imagine that a huge slaughter had just taken place

through the mountains, hills, and forests, all the light around

since it would

completely invisible to the eyes. In the sky, someone might notice the bending light around

terrifyingly accurate perceptions of their surroundings. The Mana fluctuations Shang left behind while walking on the ground would mostly be hidden by

forests, Shang

longer a place where Zone Beasts stopped their