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 eyes

with thinking about bigger things than just this branch.

had to

Trapper, who moved his body

or leave the branch for a bit. I will call

a bit with confusion

of the training rooms and activating the Isolation

and the Keeper were

specifically, Shang and

are wasted here," the Territory Lord

Shang didn't answer.

to talk with you about your future. I think we can make better use of your talents

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

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

say anything

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

a

Lord

accepted any non-Mage in our inner circle since they are all too weak. Additionally, joining the inner circle means that the Temple of Blood will lose a mountain of resources. We are investing in

more resources into you will most likely

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

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

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

you 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."

a very

Shang heard that, he took a

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

that he had killed someone this

on the same level as the

was one of those

killed a Mage Lord's

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

of Blood's neighboring territory, the one on top of

out and patrol his territory, killing every single member of

might even decide to sacrifice Shang in hopes of

Lord said. "You know that this situation

is not your fault. I was the one that misjudged