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

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

to

on Trapper,

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

at Shang for a bit with

one of the training rooms

only Shang and the Keeper

specifically, Shang and

here," the

Shang didn't answer.

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

kind of discussion with everyone that can fight with a Mage two

can jump 1.5 levels. Being able to win against

say anything and just

could jump two levels for a long time. Under normal circumstances, that would

I'm not a

Territory Lord nodded

never 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 new people in the hope that they will one day become Mage Lords and

into you will most likely end in a net

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

will actually work,

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

would be even riskier. In fact, investing in you would be akin to throwing a

"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 the

Shang heard that, he took

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

hadn't expected that he had

on the same level as the Natural Selection Company,

was one of

Shang had just killed

Shang had the backing of the Temple of Blood, this

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

and patrol his territory, killing every single

of Blood might even decide to sacrifice Shang in hopes

Territory Lord said. "You know that this situation is

misjudged