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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

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

she had to

on Trapper,

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

for a bit with confusion and

thing," Trapper said before entering one of the

Shang and the

Shang and the Territory

are wasted here," the

Shang didn't answer.

think we can make better use of your talents someplace

kind of discussion with everyone that can fight with a Mage two levels above themselves. The

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

didn't say anything and

Under normal circumstances, that would be more than enough for me to have this

I'm not a Mage,"

Lord

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

investing more resources into you will most likely end in a net loss for

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

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

way to reach the Sixth Realm with an incredible Battle-Strength, you can't guarantee that you

in powerful Mages is already risky, and investing in you would be even riskier. In fact, investing in you would be akin to throwing

"It's not realistic."

in a very short period of time. Even more, one

that, he took

target's name earlier, he

hadn't expected that he had killed someone

the Natural Selection Company, and they

was one of

had just killed

of the Temple of Blood, this was still very dangerous to

territory, the one on top of the Wildfern

out and patrol his territory, killing every single member

Blood might even decide to sacrifice

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

was the one that misjudged your power, and I was the one