Sword God in a World of Magic

What did Shang see in the hole inside the dead tree?

More Swamp Millipedes, but smaller.

No wonder that thing had its head pointed into the dead tree. It was probably nursing its young.

The little Swamp Millipedes were only around half a meter long and quite thin. At the moment, Shang could see them squiggling around in a ball.

'Lucky!' Shang thought with a grin. 'Those are at least ten, which means I get another 500 Contribution Points.'

Did Shang feel bad about killing them?

No.

First of all, they were a menace to nature, and second of all, they were insects. It was just natural for a human to feel less empathy for insects.

Shang looked at his left arm, which had healed by now.

Then, Shang put his hand into the hole and pointed it at the ball.

Shang used his Ice Blast, and the ball froze over in an instant. Of course, Shang's arm nearly burned off, but he quickly saved it by using a Fire Blast in a random direction.

However, his arm was still bleeding heavily, and it would need some time to heal. Luckily, the bone wasn't injured, which meant that Shang wouldn't need to use as much Mana.

The inherent Mana inside his body should heal the arm pretty quickly.

A couple seconds later, Shang's arm was fully healed.

However, his Mana was dangerously low.

In his spars against the other students, Shang had been able to heal his broken foot a couple of times, but that had only been a small foot. This time, it was his entire arm. His Mana had to heal way more mass.

After healing his arm, Shang took out the frozen ball of Swamp Millipedes and put it inside his beast sack together with the feelers of the adult version.

Kind of hard to count how many young

2,000 Contribution Points per unit of ore since the cheapest Rank Two ore cost that much. However, since I need ore with specific Affinities, I will probably need more. Additionally, I need two units per

ore costs 3,500 since

took a deep breath when he

this ball of Swamp Millipedes isn't even a fiftieth of

a lot of work, but I think that's to be expected. The other students have been in the academy for over four years. Over

100,000 Contribution Points in four years. It's definitely possible to earn 28,000 Contribution Points, but it

Shang sighed.

don't like the thought of going into the wilderness every day to kill beasts that aren't even a danger to me, but I

the beast sack over his shoulder. It was very light at the moment since nearly nothing was in

Ring. However, I will also get something that allows me to store my stuff when I reach the General Stage. That kind of makes

continued going down. The afternoon had passed, and evening had

but he still had no idea if he was allowed to kill them

blood and signs of dragging

Shang's eyes lit up.

and found a hidden burrow beneath

time, Shang lured the Pest Cat out of its burrow by throwing his sword in front of one of the entrances, but this time, the Pest Cat fled out of

killed it, cut off its

out of the burrow with a

'No young.'

to the northeast. He had decided that he would go deep into the forest. Right now, he was still

wanted to make his trip profitable, he would need

time, it was in the middle of a clearing in a big puddle. It was about as big as the

the Swamp

purplish liquid like a slug and munching on the

next minutes, Shang saw that the Swamp Millipede ate up all the grass in its surroundings and replaced it with

and as soon as the two liquids

smoke came out of the sizzling liquid, and it entered the Swamp Millipede's body

thought. 'I mean, the Poison Affinity is a mix of the Water Affinity and Darkness Affinity. If my Darkness Affinity can absorb life energy, the Swamp

Swamp Millipede for a bit, Shang charged at it with all of his speed. The last Swamp Millipede had been a problem since it had been positioned weirdly, with its

just in the

that the Swamp Millipede was at the Middle Soldier Stage while Shang was at the Peak Soldier Stage. Together with Shang's advantage of surprise and his impressive speed,