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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.

Trapper saw that,

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

to overlook dozens

Trapper, who moved his body back

activate an Isolation Barrier or leave the branch for a bit. I

looked at Shang for a bit

said before entering one of the training rooms and

Shang and the Keeper

Shang and the Territory

here," the

Shang didn't answer.

you about your future. I think we can make better use of

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

1.5 levels. Being able to win against someone like this means

say anything and just

knew that you could jump two levels for a long time. Under normal circumstances, that would be more than enough for me to have this talk with

not a

Territory Lord nodded

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 new people in the hope that they will one day

levels, investing more resources into you will

to the Sky Lantern so that you may gain inspiration on

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

if you knew of a 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

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 Crystals into the wilderness and hoping that there would be more of them

"It's not realistic."

care of two Late Archmages in a very short period of

heard that, he took

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

Shang hadn't expected that he had

the Natural

Treasury Master was one of those Mage

just killed a

the backing of the Temple of Blood, this

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

might directly come out and patrol his

an act of desperation, the Temple of Blood might even decide to sacrifice Shang in hopes of

the Territory Lord said. "You know that

not your fault. I was the one that misjudged your