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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.

saw that, his eyes

was occupied with thinking about bigger things than just this branch. Because of that, she rarely reacted to anything happening in this

to

eyes focused on Trapper, who moved his body back by a

Barrier or leave the branch for a bit. I will call you

looked at Shang for a bit

Trapper said before entering one of the training rooms and activating the Isolation

Shang and the Keeper

more specifically, Shang and the Territory

here,"

Shang didn't answer.

future. I think we can make better use

can fight with a Mage two levels above themselves. The important part here is the word fight. Winning

to fight someone two levels above yourself means you can jump 1.5 levels. Being able to win against someone like this means you can jump 2

say anything and just

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

a

Territory 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

jump 1.5 levels, investing more resources into you

gain inspiration on how to reach

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

an incredible Battle-Strength, you can't guarantee that you will

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

"It's not realistic."

took care of two Late Archmages in a very short period of time. Even more,

he

earlier, he

that he had killed someone

Family was on the same level as the

was one

just killed a Mage

the Temple of Blood, this

neighboring territory, the one on top of

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

of desperation, the Temple of Blood might even decide to sacrifice Shang in hopes of appeasing

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

one that misjudged your power, and I was the one