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.

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

Shang on one of the trees, and earthen spears appeared around its body, similar

spears instead of one or two, and they moved

pangolin had shot them in

to jump over the crowns of the trees and then used an Ice Blast to shoot

earthen spears missed after destroying a

saw that its prey had fled into the distance at such

the pangolin was very fast, and it could charge

effort just to kill something

wasn't worth

Mana to

this ability to quickly flee was precisely how Shang was able to hunt in the southern

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

pocketed the corpse of the Vanishing Snake he had just killed and ran

part of the northeastern

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

Snakes thrived

beasts were great nourishment for Vanishing Snakes, and

of General Stage beasts from the Wasteland were on the blacklist.

Snakes kept killing

could kill so many young also showed how dangerous the Empress Cobra Zone actually was, and by

to expand the swamp towards the Wasteland, the Wasteland might

Zone was just very dangerous in

an hour of traveling, Shang exited the northeastern forest after

that the sky was a bit brighter than in the

was probably

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

his way, Shang saw another dog that was interested in the beast sack. He simply let the dog sniff the beast sack for a

big gates were still closed, which meant that Shang had

all these Vanishing Snakes," the inspecting guard said with a smile as he closed the beast sack again. "You're protecting Warrior's

politely, something he hadn't done in a long while. "Thanks,"

the smaller door behind him. "Get on it, rich boy," he said with

nodded and entered

as the first people started

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

boredom. "Just jump over the gate," he said. "I