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.

Points or something like that. Kind of hard to count how many young are inside the

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

of ore costs 3,500 since I have rare Affinities, I would

deep breath when he finished

this ball of Swamp Millipedes isn't even a fiftieth of what I need.

expected. The other students have been in the academy for over four years. Over four years, they have probably done a lot

they could have easily earned way over 100,000 Contribution Points in four years. It's definitely possible to earn 28,000

Shang sighed.

into the wilderness every day to kill beasts that aren't even a danger to me, but I guess work isn't supposed to be fun. After all,

beast sack over his shoulder. It was very light at the moment since nearly nothing was in it, but it was still a bit annoying to carry

also get something that allows me to store my stuff when I reach the General Stage. That kind

Shang continued towards the northeast, the sun continued going down. The

his journey, but he still had no idea

until he found some blood

Shang's eyes lit up.

the signs and found

like the last time, Shang lured the Pest Cat out of its burrow by throwing his sword

killed it, cut off its ears, and looked into

Shang came out of the

'No young.'

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

trip profitable, he would need to

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

the

munching on the surrounding earth. Shang decided

ate up all the grass in its surroundings

Millipede, and as

smoke came out of the sizzling liquid, and it

Affinity is a mix of the Water Affinity and Darkness Affinity. If my

Swamp Millipede for a bit, Shang charged at it with all of his speed. The last Swamp Millipede had

one was just in

noticed Shang, but it was already too late. One shouldn't forget 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, the Swamp Millipede couldn't even react