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.

like that. Kind of hard to count how

least 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

3,500 since I have rare Affinities,

breath when he

of Swamp Millipedes isn't even a fiftieth of

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

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

Shang sighed.

wilderness every day to kill beasts that aren't even a danger

at the moment since nearly nothing was in it, but it was

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

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

but he still had no idea

blood and signs of dragging on

Shang's eyes lit up.

followed the signs and found a hidden

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

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

a minute, Shang came out of the burrow with

'No young.'

he would go deep into the forest. Right now, he was

his trip profitable, he would need to enter deep into

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

was the

like a slug and munching on the surrounding earth. Shang decided to watch the

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

the purplish liquid around the Swamp Millipede, and as soon as the two liquids

of black smoke came out of the sizzling liquid, and

a mix of

it with all of his speed. The last Swamp

was just

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