Sword God in a World of Magic

After waiting for a couple more minutes, Shang noticed that the dangerous feeling didn't return.

Apparently, the Vanishing Snake had vanished.

Shang put the beast sack back on his back. It still was rather light since he only harvested ears and feelers.

By now, the sun was near the horizon. Soon, it would be night.

'I should be able to find a lot more Pest Cats in the night. I've already found quite a few during the evening when they are hiding, which means that I will find even more during the night.'

'This definitely isn't like Duke Whirlwind's garden. Duke Whirlwind's garden didn't have that many actual beasts. Most of the things in Duke Whirlwind's garden were animals.'

'When I came to this world, I thought that the God put me in some dangerous area, but only now do I realize that he really had put me in some sort of tutorial area. If he had put me in this forest, I wouldn't even have survived a day probably.'

'The most dangerous beasts in Duke Whirlwind's garden had been the Pest Cats, and there hadn't even been that many. Sure, there have also been some more powerful beasts, but they were rare. On top of that, the Ice Spear Bear was completely isolated in the lake and only appeared in the winter. If I didn't search for it, I wouldn't have found it.'

Shang continued towards the northeast, and soon enough, night hit.

As soon as the last glimmer of light vanished, the entire feeling of the forest changed, and a familiar feeling appeared in Shang's heart.

This was just like back when he had been in Duke Whirlwind's garden at night.

It was a feeling of pressure and unknown. It was like every nook and cranny could hide a powerful beast.

Shang knew that he wasn't in much danger since he counted as basically the strongest entity in this forest, but he still felt a bit nervous.

His instincts simply told him that he had to be careful.

Shang continued traveling towards the northeast and killed a couple more Pest Cats. Sure enough, Shang found one nearly every five minutes as soon as night hit. Luckily, since he was at the Peak of the Soldier Stage, his eyesight was pretty good.

However, even that wouldn't have been enough to find that many Pest Cats.

So, how did Shang find so many?

Because Shang found something interesting.

As soon as the night hit, the Darkness Mana in the surroundings started to become denser.

to feel Darkness Mana. He was also able to feel Light and Fire Mana, but those

feeling Fire Mana was useless was logical, but why was feeling Light Mana useless? Shouldn't he have been able to feel his surroundings

it depended on the

thick, and not a lot of light reached the ground. Because of that, during the day, the Darkness and Light Mana had actually been in balance. There wasn't enough of either of them to

night, Shang could use the Darkness Mana to feel out his

accurate, and it didn't have that much range, but it was

a bit of movement regarding Mana. If something without much Mana moved, like the wind or branches, he wouldn't be able to feel that. However, if something with a lot of Mana moved, the Mana in their own being shoved the Darkness Mana

a bit different. Shang couldn't feel them push the Darkness Mana to the side but gathering

Mana was the reason why the Pest Cats were able to move

new ability,

displacing Darkness Mana, and

how powerful it was, but it felt more powerful than any

due to the trees, and he certainly didn't want

it was now, he didn't know whether he was allowed to kill it or not. If that thing up there was on the blacklist, and he provoked it, he would have to

better to just let it fly around

Shang's eyes narrowed, and he

The feeling had returned.

Vanishing Snake was

didn't move at all. Last time, he had scared the Vanishing Snake off by looking around frantically, and he didn't want that to happen

Snakes were exactly the

was worth

all of Shang's hunting up to now, he barely earned 900 Contribution

concentrated on his Darkness

impossible to spot the Vanishing Snakes with his eyes, which meant that he

Shang was genuinely nervous. He felt

feeling of being close

had been so long since he had last come into contact with

and his concentration

mind was concentrating on his instincts and

forest, but mostly, the forest

night, Shang simply stood in a small clearing with closed

seconds, Shang felt his instincts become louder. They were telling him

same time, Shang noticed

very small was moving in the