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.

only so much Pest Cats could eat at once,

their prey over half a day, one stomach-load

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

wide hole below a tree. The hole looked like an enlarged version of a mailbox's slit,

Cats could make themselves very small while

found the small hole, he looked at the tree from all sides. Sure enough, there was another slit on

since the Pest Cat

from the other tree, Shang

SHING!

of the slits. His sword

other

BANG!

the other slit, and he looked over with some

had attacked the space above the sword,

Cat by pushing

the power of Shang's legs, and Shang shot with

Cat was still confused about why there was no enemy in front of

BANG!

the Pest Cat's spine near

was more powerful,

had been

as he silently appeared beside Shang. "You can go back to the

him. "What about the

it or sell it to the academy," Mervin said. "By keeping it, you can sell it for gold. By selling

SHING!

appeared in Mervin's

a

the streets of 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,

nodded. "Thanks," he said absentmindedly as he grabbed the Beast Sack and put it

think of his actions, but

issues with thanking me,

Mervin said. "Get on with it. I