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

Since she was the Territory Lord, nearly her entire mind was occupied with thinking about bigger things than just this branch. Because of that, she rarely reacted to anything happening in this branch in any

had to overlook dozens

bit later, her eyes focused on Trapper, who moved his body back

or leave the

looked at Shang for a

one of

only Shang and the Keeper were

specifically, Shang and the Territory

here," the

Shang didn't answer.

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

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

yourself means you can jump 1.5 levels.

didn't say anything

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

not a

Lord

will lose a mountain of resources. We are investing in new people in the hope that they will one day become Mage Lords and lead the

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

Lantern so that you may gain inspiration on how to

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

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

in you would be even riskier. In fact, investing in you would be akin to throwing a bunch of Grade Seven Mana Crystals into

"It's not realistic."

Late Archmages in a very short period of time. Even more, one of them

heard that, he took a deep

name earlier, he had already suspected that this might have

hadn't expected that he had killed

on the same level as the Natural Selection Company, and they

Treasury Master was one of those

had just killed a Mage

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

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

come out and patrol his territory,

Blood might even decide to sacrifice

said. "You

one that misjudged