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.

Trapper saw that, his eyes

about bigger things than just this branch. Because of that, she rarely reacted

to overlook

eyes focused on Trapper, who moved

or leave the branch for a

for a bit with confusion

Trapper said before entering one of the training rooms

only Shang and the Keeper

specifically, Shang and the Territory

are wasted here," the Territory

Shang didn't answer.

your future. I think we can

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

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

anything and just

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

not a Mage," Shang interjected,

Territory Lord nodded

will lose a mountain of resources. We are investing in

into you will most likely end in

traveled to the Sky Lantern so that you may gain inspiration on how to reach the

gain inspiration, you can't guarantee that your plan will actually work,

even if you knew of a surefire way to reach the Sixth Realm with an incredible Battle-Strength, you

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 the

"It's not realistic."

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

that, he took a

he had already suspected that this

hadn't expected that he

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

Master was one of those

killed a

though Shang had the backing of the Temple of Blood, this

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

and patrol his territory,

the Temple of Blood might even decide to sacrifice Shang in

said. "You know that this situation is

it is not your fault. I was the one that misjudged your power, and I was