Sword God in a World of Magic

After dealing with both corpses, Shang flew back to the branch.

He got past the roots of the Yellow Sunbreaker and entered.

Trapper still sat in the middle of the branch, and when he saw White Ghost return without Ice Princess, he knew what that meant.

He felt a complex mix of emotions.

He was frustrated that he hadn't been the one to "dominate", "conquer", and "ruin" Ice Princess.

He was angry that Shang made it forever impossible for Trapper to realize this dream of his.

He felt glad that the arrogant bitch Ice Princess finally got what was coming to her.

But more than anything, he felt shocked about White Ghost's power.

White Ghost could kill Ice Princess on his own?

But then, he realized something.

It probably wasn't White Ghost that had killed her!

White Ghost had probably only watched her while a Sweeper took care of everything.

However, Trapper still became much more careful in front of Shang.

This was now the second time when someone from their branch had died after going on a mission with White Ghost.

By now, Trapper was sure that White Ghost was the Keeper's most-trusted Named Agent.

From now on, Trapper would make sure that he never showed even the slightest inkling of betrayal in front of White Ghost.

Shang stepped past Trapper without paying him any heed.

Then, he stopped in front of the Keeper.

"I completed the mission," Shang said. "Since Ice Princess is dead, I should get the entire reward."

The Keeper didn't immediately react.

After some seconds, she turned around, but instead of only turning her head a bit, her entire body actually turned to face Shang.

saw that,

occupied with thinking about bigger things than just this branch. Because of that,

she had to overlook

bit later, her eyes focused on Trapper,

Barrier or leave the branch for a bit. I will call you back," she

looked at Shang for a bit with confusion and

before entering one of the training rooms

only Shang and the Keeper were

specifically, Shang

are wasted here,"

Shang didn't answer.

talk with you about your future. I think we can

can fight with a Mage two levels above themselves. The important part here is the word

levels. Being able to win against someone like this means you can

anything and

for a long time. Under normal circumstances, that would be more

I'm not a

Territory Lord nodded

circle means that the Temple of Blood will lose a mountain of resources. We are investing in new people in the hope that they will one day become Mage

even if you could jump 1.5 levels, investing more resources into you will most likely end

that you may gain inspiration on how to reach the next Realm. I

actually work, and you also can't guarantee that your Battle-Strength won't suddenly

with an incredible Battle-Strength, you can't guarantee that you will be able to

you would be akin to throwing a bunch of Grade Seven Mana Crystals into the wilderness and hoping that there would be more of them the next time

"It's not realistic."

Late Archmages in a very short period

he took a

the target's name earlier, he had already suspected that this

hadn't expected that he had killed

Family was on the same level as the Natural

Treasury Master was one

Shang had just killed a

the backing of the Temple of Blood, this was still very dangerous

Blood's neighboring territory, the one on top

Master of the Wildfern Family might directly come out and patrol his territory, killing

desperation, the Temple of Blood might even decide to sacrifice Shang

stupid," the Territory Lord said. "You know that this

fault. I was the one that misjudged your power, and I was the one that sent you on