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.

that, his

the Territory Lord, nearly her entire mind was occupied with thinking about bigger things than just

to overlook

on Trapper, who moved

a training room and activate an Isolation Barrier or leave the branch

looked at Shang for a bit with

one of the training rooms and

Shang and the

more specifically, Shang and

talents are wasted here," the Territory Lord

Shang didn't answer.

to talk with you about your future. I think we

this kind of discussion with everyone that can fight with a Mage two levels above themselves. The important part here is the word fight. Winning is not

means you can jump 1.5 levels. Being able to win

anything

for a long time. Under normal circumstances, that would be more than enough for me to have this talk with

I'm not a Mage," Shang interjected,

Territory Lord nodded

Blood will lose a mountain of resources. We are investing in new

more resources into you will most likely end in

Lantern so that you may gain inspiration on how to reach

will actually work, and you also can't guarantee

surefire way to reach the Sixth Realm with an incredible Battle-Strength, you can't guarantee that you will be able to do the same thing with

would be even riskier. In fact, investing in you would be akin to throwing a bunch of Grade Seven Mana Crystals into the wilderness and hoping that there would be more of

"It's not realistic."

Lord added. "You took care of two Late Archmages in a very short period of time. Even

Shang heard that, he took

name earlier, he had already suspected that

expected that he

Wildfern Family was on the same level as the

one

killed a Mage

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

possible that the Temple of Blood's neighboring territory, the one on top of the Wildfern Family's

might directly come out and patrol his territory, killing every single member of the Temple of Blood

of Blood might even decide to sacrifice Shang in hopes of appeasing

stupid," the Territory Lord said. "You know

misjudged your