Sword God in a World of Magic

After watching the Wasteland for a while, Shang left towards the northeastern forest. He ran down the street at a comfortable pace, and a couple of minutes later, Shang arrived at the place where the road met the actual ground.

Shang looked at the sun to check where it was currently. He knew that it was the afternoon, which meant that the sun was in the west.

'Sure enough, the sun acts the same way in this world as it does on Earth. The road ends in the north, and the sun's currently left from where I am. I doubt I will come out of the Wild Forest before the day is over. I think I should spend the night in the eastern forest and try to hunt as many beasts as I can.'

Shang checked if he had everything he needed and went towards the northeast.

The Wild Forest stretched for nearly a hundred kilometers into the east and the west. After a hundred kilometers on either side, one would reach the next Zones. If one went towards the northwest, one would eventually reach the wilderness of the Ice Wyvern Zone, and if one went to the northeast, one would reach the wilderness of the Empress Cobra Zone.

The borders between the Farm Line and the Wild Forest had very few beasts due to the scouts and guarding dogs. If Shang wanted to hunt beasts, he would need to travel into the Wild Forest for quite a few kilometers.

Shang charged towards the northeast, and as soon as he reached the forest, he jumped onto a tree. Walking on the ground would attract the attention of several beasts.

Usually, Shang wouldn't care about some beasts at the Soldier Stage, but the Wild Forest was under strict management. If Shang accidentally got noticed by a beast that he wasn't allowed to kill, it could become troublesome. After all, the leaders of Warrior's Paradise didn't care if a hunter was attacked by such a beast. The hunter was not allowed to kill it, even if they were attacked.

Shang jumped from tree to tree, and only a couple of minutes later, he saw the first beast.

It was an orange lizard with red eyes. It was about a meter tall and two meters long. A red frill could be seen around its neck.

'I have no idea what kind of beast that is, but it doesn't feel dangerous,' Shang thought. 'From what I'm feeling, I think that beast is in the Middle Soldier Stage. Sadly, killing it would be a risk since I don't know if that thing is on the blacklist or not.'

Shang continued jumping from tree to tree as silently as he could, which wasn't easy. However, he had had enough practice.

On his journey, Shang also saw a huge brown boar and bird with a very imposing and angry-looking face.

The name of a beast immediately appeared in Shang's mind when he saw that bird.

'Grimface,' Shang thought. 'I remember looking at a mission that was about a Grimface. I guess that bird is a Grimface, right? I mean, the face certainly fits.'

'Sadly, I don't know what the client actually wants from the beast. Additionally, I didn't even accept the mission. I'm unsure if it's a problem if I kill the target before accepting the mission.'

Shang continued traveling toward the northeast for another hour. By jumping from tree to tree, Shang's speed had taken a considerable hit. At most, he was maybe ten kilometers into the forest.

found

the ground in front of Shang was a one-meter-high and about ten-meter-long millipede. It was currently curled around a dying

Swamp Millipede,' Shang thought. '50 Contribution Points for each. I only need to bring its two feelers to get

moving slightly, which showed that it

something with a Poison Affinity yet,

moved around the surrounding trees to check

basically its entire body, but the head is nowhere to be seen. Well, I know where the tail is. So, I just have

sure enough, he found the

bottom. I can't hit

there is an

looked at the millipede's body with a frown. A big chunk of its body had curled around the place where its head entered the tree. From the side, it was impossible to hit its neck

not kill it, and it might release some poisonous gas or something similar. Because of that, Shang wanted to kill it in one

can't land on the dead tree since

tried

Suddenly, Shang's eyebrows rose.

looked at his left

yet. I have

'Would that work?'

Silence.

I should try

the Mana since the Mana I

stable branch near the millipede's head's place and readied

Then, he jumped off.

gain more distance. He had to travel for nearly 15 meters, which was too much

meters, Shang's momentum started to go downward. As it looked right now, he would probably land around

Whoosh!

pointed his left arm diagonally towards the ground behind him and used

pushed Shang forward and

was so powerful that

left arm towards the sky as he readied his sword with his

Whoosh!

wind came out of