Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang took the Beast Core into his hand and inspected it, ignoring the headless corpse to his right.

'This thing is probably still worth about ten Grade Seven Mana Crystals,' Shang thought. 'That is a hundred times of what I would need to look at a living Beast Lord.'

After a couple of seconds, Shang put the Beast Core down and took out a Communication Crystal.

"The Treasury Master of the Urbring Family hid the skeleton of a dead Beast Lord and its Beast Core. I killed the Treasury Master. The mission is complete," Shang said.

Yes, Shang wouldn't pocket anything.

It was a lot of money, but it was too risky.

The Temple of Blood was too mysterious, and Shang still couldn't tell how they could inspect the surroundings this thoroughly and mark all the beasts.

On top of that, the Territory Lord personally was his Keeper, and this place was still within her Spirit Sense's range. Sure, her Spirit Sense should be isolated by the Yellow Sunbreaker, but Shang wouldn't take any risks.

Lastly, how was he supposed to transform something this valuable into actual disposable income, and how would he explain his newfound wealth?

It didn't need a genius to connect Shang's newfound wealth to this mission.

"Good work," the Keeper answered through the Communication Crystal. "Return to the branch."

A moment later, a new route back to the branch appeared inside Shang's mind.

Then, Shang exited the room and went to the entrance of the cave.

He took out some of the leftover expensive Barrier Disruptors he had purchased to destroy the two gatherer families a couple of years ago.

The Temple of Blood sold them to make it easier for Agents to fulfill their duty. One could call it an investment to make sure that the mission was a success.

A small hole opened in front of Shang, and he used a second Barrier Disruptor to collect the first one.

left with

now, the two Barrier Disruptors had used up all their Mana, making them useless, but members of the Temple of Blood were forbidden from giving outsiders access to their

returned to looking

to

absorbed about three Abominations, which wasn't a lot. However, the Abominations' appearances didn't seem suspicious since he was just taking advantage of

Grade Six Mana Crystals. That's pretty good,' Shang thought as he pushed past the

the cave, but the barrier vanished

because someone else was just about to leave for

and slender light-blue-haired woman stepped past Shang without looking

walked past him, Shang entered the branch and closed the barrier behind

a fan of talking to others,

back. If it isn't the

and long grey hair

training now, and this man was now focusing on earning money for

with a Metal Affinity, and his specialty was killing others in a direct

was quite good, and he could even fight Mid Archmages for

was rather young and was also the newest member of the

codename was Spike

Ball had just tried to provoke Shang, Shang just ignored him and walked to

saw Shang walk past him, but he didn't say

constantly insulted everyone around him. If it weren't against

guessed that Spike Ball was insecure and just wanted to prove to everyone and himself that he

of that wasn't

was forbidden to fight, Spike Ball was no threat, and his words

knew him, and nobody cared

Except Trapper.

room, the entire

even got so bad at one point that the Keeper forced them into different rhythms regarding their training. This would stop them

stopped behind

"Report," the Keeper transmitted.