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.

something like that. Kind of hard to count how many young

Two ore cost that much. However, since I need ore with specific Affinities,

of ore costs 3,500 since I have

breath when

of Swamp Millipedes isn't even a fiftieth

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

earned way over 100,000 Contribution Points in four years. It's definitely possible to earn 28,000 Contribution Points, but it takes time

Shang sighed.

don't like the thought of going into the wilderness every day to kill beasts that aren't

put the beast sack over his shoulder. It was very light at the moment since

to store my

the northeast, the sun continued going down. The afternoon had passed, and

more beasts on his journey, but he still had no idea if he was allowed to

was until he found some blood

Shang's eyes lit up.

signs and found a

sword in front of one of the entrances, but this time, the Pest Cat fled out of

killed it, cut off its ears, and looked into

minute, Shang came out

'No young.'

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

his trip profitable, he would need to enter deep into the

but this time, it was in the middle of a

the Swamp

munching on the surrounding earth. Shang decided to watch

the next minutes, Shang saw that the Swamp Millipede ate up all the grass in

mix with the purplish liquid around the Swamp Millipede, and as soon as the two liquids came into

the sizzling liquid, and it

the fertile earth into smoke, which it then absorbed?' Shang thought. 'I mean, the Poison Affinity is a mix of the Water Affinity and Darkness Affinity. If my Darkness Affinity

for a bit, Shang charged at it with all of his speed. The

was just in the

while Shang was at the Peak Soldier Stage. Together with Shang's advantage of surprise and his impressive