Sword God in a World of Magic

Ice Princess kept looking at Shang with cold and hate-filled eyes.

'She seems to suspect something,' Shang thought.

Shang would have expected Ice Princess to argue about getting a partner, but her reaction had been a bit too strong.

Either she thought that Shang was supposed to keep watch over her, or she thought that Shang was supposed to kill her.

However, Shang was pretty certain that it wasn't the second possibility.

Ice Princess was too proud of her own power to think that anyone could possibly believe that an Early Archmage could defeat her.

"Fine," Ice Princess said after a while, looking back at the Keeper.

"Good," the Keeper said.

Then, she focused on Shang and transmitted the mission to him.

Target: Traveling Late Archmage.

Description: The target has the appearance of a young woman with greenish-grey hair and a butterfly tattoo on her right cheek.

Reward: Ten Grade Six Mana Crystals.

After inspecting the mission, Shang turned around and left without saying anything.

He didn't even ask anything of the Keeper.

Ice Princess kept eyeing Shang with a venomous glare, but she eventually followed.

The two of them came out of the branch, and Shang used his medals to get past the roots. He didn't want to show Ice Princess that he could just lift the roots.

Shang waited in the front until Ice Princess stepped past him.

anything, but his

Princess should go

this point, Ice Princess stopped honoring White Ghost with her

to the sky, and Shang simply followed

all her speed.

normal way. As long as he only used his World Connection to fly, he could

Ghost Step a couple of times. Ghost Step looked very similar to Mana Step, but it didn't cost as much Mana

could keep up with Ice

Shang, but

she saw that Shang had actually managed to keep up with her, a cold

couldn't tell what

anywhere close to the branch. In fact, it was on

them still received the locations of all the Ancestral Beasts in

Temple of Blood actually managed to pinpoint the locations of

took them nearly an hour to

kilometers away from their branch, which meant it was outside the Keeper's

kilometers away from the next closest branch. In a way, this location was

hindsight and by knowing that this mission was suspicious, Shang could see the red flags

likely planning something, one wouldn't think much about it. After all, missions

appear suspicious. It

choosing the mission but the Keeper choosing the agent for the mission. That would make

stopped, Shang found their

Princess, his Spirit Sense had

target was just sitting on a big boulder,

she was completely

of any of the gatherer families close

no cities or towns

anything valuable

any special kind of

There was nothing.

as normal and unassuming as it

this also meant that there was actually no reason for