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.

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

the cheapest Rank Two ore cost that much. However, since I need ore with specific Affinities, I will probably need more.

that each unit of ore costs 3,500 since I have rare Affinities, I would need 28,000

took a deep breath when he finished

of Swamp Millipedes isn't even a fiftieth of what I

that's to be expected. The other students have been in

Points per day, which is definitely possible, they could have easily earned way over 100,000 Contribution Points in four years.

Shang sighed.

beasts that aren't even a danger to me, but I guess work isn't supposed to be fun. After

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

the sun continued going down. The afternoon had passed,

several more beasts on his journey, but he still had no idea if he

blood and signs of

Shang's eyes lit up.

the signs and found a hidden burrow beneath a

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

off its ears, and

Shang came out of the

'No young.'

he would go deep into the forest. Right now, he was still in an area where a lot of students and hunters went to, which meant that the number of killable beasts

trip profitable, he would need to enter deep into

saw another Swamp Millipede, but this time, it was in the middle of a clearing in

was the

munching on the surrounding earth. Shang decided to watch the Swamp

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

the purplish liquid around the Swamp Millipede, and as

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

'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 Millipede

it with all of his speed. The last Swamp Millipede had been a problem since it had been positioned weirdly,

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