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.

he left with

all their Mana, making them useless, but members of the Temple of Blood were forbidden from giving

below Shang returned to looking like a

to the branch

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

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

at the end of the cave, but

was because someone else was just about to leave for a

woman stepped past Shang without looking

Shang entered the branch and

wasn't a fan of talking to others,

who's back. If it isn't

long grey hair sat in

training now, and this man was now focusing on earning money for resources, which was why he was

was an Early Archmage with a Metal Affinity, and his specialty was killing others

was quite good, and he could even fight Mid

rather young and was also the newest member of

was Spike

tried to provoke Shang, Shang just ignored him and walked

snorted when he saw Shang

it weren't against the rules, he would probably challenge everyone in this branch to a one-on-one

and just wanted to prove to everyone and himself that he

all of

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

knew him, and nobody cared

Except Trapper.

Ball were in the same room, the entire branch would get

them into different rhythms regarding their training. This would stop them from being in the room and waiting for missions at

behind the

"Report," the Keeper transmitted.