Sword God in a World of Magic

When Shang heard what he had to do, his mind quickly changed directions.

He put his earlier thoughts to the back of his mind as his old instincts from the wilderness returned.

Without saying anything, Shang shot towards the Wild Forest. Mervin watched him from afar and slowly followed him from a distance.

As soon as Shang reached the first tree, he jumped to one of the branches in near-perfect silence. Then, he simply jumped from branch to branch with practiced ease.

Shang looked at the ground of the forest for the entire time while always quickly checking the tree he would jump to next.

Shang hadn't even realized that Mervin had essentially made it harder for Shang than necessary.

Pest Cats were only active at night. Right now, it was morning, and the sun was already shining down from above. This meant that the Pest Cats were hiding inside their nests, which were nearly impossible to find for someone that didn't know about the Pest Cats' habits.

When Mervin saw the methodical method at which Shang was searching for the Pest Cats, he sighed.

He wanted to teach Shang a lesson. Shang had acted in a self-destructive way by not at least pretending to be polite, and Mervin wanted to make it a bit harder for Shang as a lesson.

Action and consequence.

Shang wanted to make his life harder? Sure, Mervin would comply and make it a bit harder.

However, Mervin had underestimated Shang.

Shang had been living in the wilderness for over half a year, and he had been forced to learn the habits of the beasts around him. After all, if he didn't, a Pest Cat might have jumped out at him from its nest if he didn't notice it prior to that.

Pest Cats might only be active and hunt at night, but if some prey decided to directly stroll right past its home, it wouldn't decline the meal.

After a couple of minutes of jumping from tree to tree, Shang noticed some dried drops of blood on the ground.

Pest Cats hunted every single night because they needed a lot of food to produce offspring. Pest Cats were famous for their astounding ability to reproduce quickly.

When Pest Cats hunted at night, they carried their prey to their burrow to consume it over the day. The Pest Cats had an impressively fast metabolism, and their stomachs were very efficient in digesting food.

there was still only so much Pest Cats could

to eat their prey over half a day, one stomach-load at a

minute of following the trail, Shang found an area with light scratch marks and

saw a small but wide hole below a tree. The hole looked like

Cats could make themselves very small while still being

at the tree from

slits since the Pest Cat would be

other tree, Shang readied

SHING!

entrance of one of the slits. His sword hit the ground in

at the other slit and

BANG!

heard a commotion from the other slit, and he looked over with

slit and had attacked the space

shot toward the Pest Cat by pushing himself

tree creaked under the power of Shang's legs, and Shang shot with incredible speed

about why there was no enemy in

BANG!

kick hit the Pest Cat's spine near its chest, easily breaking

powerful, which made it rather easy for him to

had been

Shang. "You can go back to the academy. I'll quickly

corpse below him. "What about the corpse?" he

keeping it, you can sell it for gold. By selling it to the academy, you can get

SHING!

appeared in Mervin's

a

the cities since that would make the entire city stink of blood and guts. That's why you have to carry it inside a Beast Sack. They're inexpensive, and they're meant to be used only one time," Mervin explained. "You

grabbed the Beast Sack and put it around the corpse

didn't think of his actions, but Mervin noticed

'Earlier, he had issues with thanking me, but now,

on with it. I still