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,

her position. Since she was the Territory 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

to

on Trapper, who

activate an Isolation Barrier or leave the

for a bit with confusion and

Trapper said before entering one of the

Shang and the

more specifically, Shang and the

talents are wasted here,"

Shang didn't answer.

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

two levels above themselves. The important part here is the word fight. Winning is

1.5 levels. Being able to win against someone like this means you can

anything and just

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

not a

Lord

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

even if you could jump 1.5 levels, investing more resources into

inspiration on

you can't guarantee that your plan will actually work, and you also can't guarantee that your

surefire way to reach the Sixth Realm with an incredible Battle-Strength,

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."

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

he took a

name earlier, he had already suspected

expected that he had killed someone this

the same level as the Natural Selection Company, and they had

Master was one of

just killed a Mage

though Shang had the backing of the Temple of Blood, this was still very dangerous to

territory, the one on

Wildfern Family might directly come out and patrol his territory, killing every single member of the Temple of Blood he

of desperation, the Temple of Blood might even decide to

not stupid," the Territory Lord said. "You know that

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