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,

rarely moved from her position. Since she was the Territory Lord, nearly her entire mind was occupied with thinking about bigger

had to

focused on Trapper, who moved his body back by

Isolation Barrier or leave the branch for a bit.

a bit

of the training rooms and

and the

Shang and the

wasted here," the Territory Lord

Shang didn't answer.

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

a Mage two levels above themselves. The important part here is

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

say anything and

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

not a Mage," Shang interjected,

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.

1.5 levels, investing more resources into you will most likely end in a

gain inspiration on how to reach

actually work, and you also can't guarantee that

Battle-Strength, you can't guarantee that

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 next time

"It's not realistic."

a very short period of time. Even more, one of them was the daughter of the Wildfern Family's

he took a

earlier, he had already suspected that this might have

that he had

as the

Treasury Master was one

Shang had just killed a Mage

of the Temple of Blood,

was possible that the Temple of Blood's neighboring territory, the one on top of the Wildfern Family's territory, would suffer severe

directly come out and patrol his territory, killing every single member of

might even decide to sacrifice

Lord said. "You

misjudged your power, and I was the