Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang stood on the ground in the middle of the northeastern forest, his eyes showing a look of concentration.

Silence.

BANG!

Shang unleashed a Fire Blast as he turned around, his sword ready.

Shang's legs parted the grass on the ground, but they weren't touching the earth.

SHING!

A black gleam created a half-moon as Shang swung his sword at seemingly an empty place.

An instant later, the corpse of a nearly translucent snake fell to the ground in two pieces.

'And that's five,' Shang thought with a smirk. 'I knew that traveling along the southern part of the northeastern forest would be profitable.'

Yes, Shang was in the southern part of the northeastern forest, which was a risky zone. Beasts from the Wasteland would come here from time to time to have their young.

Fortunately, Shang knew a couple of the beasts from the Wasteland now. After all, teacher Niria had talked about General Stage beasts one could find in the northeastern forest in her last lesson. She hadn't been able to get through all of them, but she had talked about a lot.

Because of that, Shang felt confident in hunting in this risky part of the forest.

First of all, the beasts of the Wasteland were mostly very direct predators. There were only a few beasts that hunted via ambushes in the Wasteland.

The Wasteland simply didn't have many ways to hide, which meant that there were only very few ambush predators in general there.

On top of that, those beasts only came here to have their young. They generally weren't very interested in Soldier Stage beings since they gave nearly no Mana.

Sure, if they saw something like that directly in front of them, they might as well kill it, but if that thing was very good at running away, they wouldn't bother. At most, they would release one or two casual attacks, and if the target managed to survive them and run away, they would simply stop.

But surviving two casual attacks from a General Stage beast was still very difficult.

That's where Shang's left arm came into play.

By now, Shang had become very good at using his left arm to move around.

And it had already proven to be a lifesaver.

a big pangolin walking through the forest. When Shang had seen it, he had directly known that it was a

had noticed Shang on one of the trees, and earthen spears

one or

them

Shang had used his left arm to jump over the crowns of the trees and then used an Ice Blast to

missed after destroying a

fled into the distance at

it could charge forward, destroying all the trees in

was too much effort just

wasn't worth

course, this maneuver cost Shang a lot of Mana to regenerate his left arm,

how Shang was able to hunt in the southern

General Stage beasts, and the pangolin had been the only General Stage beast Shang

Snake he

the

Millipedes, and even the Pest Cats weren't as numerous in this place. After all, the young of

Vanishing Snakes thrived

great nourishment for Vanishing Snakes,

Vanishing Snakes were worth so many Contribution Points. Most progenies of General Stage beasts from the Wasteland were on the blacklist.

the Vanishing Snakes

Vanishing Snakes could kill so many young also showed how dangerous

to expand the swamp towards the Wasteland,

Cobra Zone was

the northeastern forest after a

was a bit brighter than in the

guessed that it was probably

reached the street rather quickly. This time, he wasn't near the Farm Line since he had been hunting in

the beast sack. He simply let the dog sniff the beast sack for a bit. The

reached Warrior's Paradise shortly before sunrise. The big gates were still closed, which meant that Shang

as he closed the beast sack again. "You're protecting Warrior's Paradise's prosperity and the

he hadn't done in a

guard nodded and gestured to the smaller door behind him. "Get

and entered

the first

I want to enter the academy," Shang said as he saw teacher Loran sleeping near the closed

his head with boredom. "Just jump over the gate," he said. "I don't want to stand up right