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,

thinking about bigger things

to overlook

her eyes focused on Trapper, who moved

or leave the branch for

for a bit with confusion and

entering one of the training rooms and activating

and the Keeper were

specifically, Shang and the

wasted here," the Territory Lord

Shang didn't answer.

you about your future. I think we can make better

everyone that can fight with a Mage two levels above themselves.

to fight someone two levels above yourself means you can jump 1.5 levels. Being able to win

didn't say anything and

levels for a long time. Under normal circumstances, that

a Mage," Shang

Lord nodded

all too weak. Additionally, joining the inner 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

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

may gain inspiration on how

you can't guarantee that your plan will actually work, and you also can't guarantee that your Battle-Strength

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

powerful Mages is already risky, and investing in you would be even riskier. In fact, investing in you would be akin to throwing a bunch of Grade Seven Mana

"It's not realistic."

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

that, he took a

he had already suspected that this might

hadn't expected that he had killed someone

same level as the Natural Selection Company,

Treasury Master was one of

killed

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

neighboring territory, the one on top of the Wildfern Family's territory, would suffer severe setbacks due to

his territory, killing every single member of the Temple of

might even decide to sacrifice Shang in hopes of

not stupid," the Territory Lord said. "You

the one that misjudged your power, and I was the one that sent