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,

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

she had to overlook

Trapper, who moved

room and activate an Isolation Barrier or leave

at Shang for a bit with confusion and

one of the training rooms and

and the Keeper were

specifically, Shang and

here," the Territory Lord

Shang didn't answer.

your future. I think we can make

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

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

didn't say anything

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

I'm not a Mage,"

Territory Lord nodded

of Blood will lose a mountain of resources. We are investing in new people in the hope that they will one

resources into you will most

on how to reach the next Realm. I know that all

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

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

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

"It's not realistic."

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

heard that, he took

name earlier, he had already suspected

hadn't expected that he had killed

as the Natural Selection Company, and they had four

was one of

killed a

of the Temple of Blood, this was still very

the one on top of the Wildfern

out and patrol his territory, killing every single member of the Temple of

an act of desperation, the Temple of Blood might even decide

the Territory Lord said. "You know

misjudged your power, and I was the one that sent