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.

that. Kind of hard to count how many young are

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

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

deep breath

even a fiftieth of what I need. Oh

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

per day, which is definitely possible, they could have easily earned way over 100,000 Contribution

Shang sighed.

day to kill beasts that aren't even

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

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

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

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

some blood and signs of dragging on the

Shang's eyes lit up.

the signs and found a hidden

its burrow by throwing his sword in front of one of the entrances, but this time,

quickly killed it, cut off its ears, and looked into

out

'No young.'

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 still in an area where a lot of students and hunters went to, which meant that

Shang wanted to make his trip profitable, he would need to enter deep

time, it was in the middle of

was the Swamp Millipede

liquid like a slug and munching on the surrounding earth. Shang decided to watch the Swamp Millipede for a

Shang saw that the Swamp Millipede ate up all the grass in its surroundings and

the Swamp Millipede, and as soon as the two liquids came into contact

smoke came out of the sizzling liquid,

then absorbed?' Shang thought. 'I mean, the Poison Affinity is a mix of the Water Affinity and

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

just in the

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