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.

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

the trees, and earthen spears appeared

or two, and

them in a

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

after

had fled into the distance at

it could

was too much effort just to kill something at the Soldier

wasn't worth

lot of Mana to regenerate his left arm, but

Shang was able to hunt in the southern part of the

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

the Vanishing Snake he

in the southern part of the northeastern forest had been worth

the Pest Cats weren't as numerous in this place. After all, the young of the General Stage beasts walked around this place, and they were generally more powerful

Snakes

young of General Stage beasts were great nourishment for Vanishing Snakes,

many Contribution Points. Most progenies of General Stage beasts from the Wasteland were on

Vanishing Snakes kept killing these

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

Swamp Millipedes managed to expand the swamp towards the

Zone was just very

exited the northeastern forest after a profitable

bit brighter than in the middle of the

guessed that it was probably

ran towards the west and reached the street rather quickly. This time, he wasn't near the Farm Line since he had

simply let the dog sniff the beast sack for a

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

Vanishing Snakes," the inspecting guard said with a smile as he closed

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

nodded and gestured to the smaller door behind him. "Get on it, rich boy," he said with a

nodded and entered

academy rather quickly as the first people started

want to enter the academy," Shang said as he

"Just jump over the