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, his

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

focused on Trapper, who moved

training room and activate an Isolation Barrier or leave the branch

looked at Shang for a bit

entering one of the training rooms and activating

and the

Shang

talents are wasted here," the

Shang didn't answer.

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

can fight with a Mage two levels above themselves. The important part here is the word fight. Winning is not

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

didn't say anything

circumstances, that would be more than enough for me to have this talk with

not a Mage," Shang

Lord

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 Mage Lords and lead the

investing more resources into you will most likely end in a

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

even when 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

even if you knew of a surefire way to reach the Sixth Realm with an incredible Battle-Strength, you can't

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

"It's not realistic."

"You took care of two Late Archmages in a very short period of time. Even more, one of them was the daughter

that, he took a

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

he had killed

the same level as the Natural Selection Company,

Treasury Master was one of those

had just killed a

the Temple of Blood, this was still very

territory, the one on top of the

the Wildfern Family might directly come out and patrol his

of desperation, the Temple of Blood might even

Territory Lord said.

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