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.

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

earthen spears appeared around its body, similar

one or two, and

had shot them

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

missed after destroying a couple

prey had fled into the

fast, and it could charge forward, destroying all

just to kill something at the

worth

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

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

Stage beasts, and the pangolin had been

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

part of the northeastern forest had been

in this place. After all, the young of the General Stage beasts walked around this place, and they were generally

Vanishing Snakes thrived

were great nourishment for Vanishing Snakes, and they loved

that showed once again why the Vanishing Snakes were worth so many Contribution Points. Most progenies of General Stage beasts from the Wasteland were on the blacklist. After all, the Wasteland was the biggest

Vanishing Snakes

young also showed how dangerous the Empress Cobra Zone actually was, and by extension, the

Swamp Millipedes managed to expand the swamp towards the

Zone was just very

traveling, Shang exited the northeastern forest after a profitable night

east and saw that the sky was a bit brighter than in the middle

that it was probably around

and reached the street rather quickly. This time, he wasn't near the

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

were still closed, which meant that Shang had

inspecting guard said with a smile as he closed the beast sack again. "You're protecting Warrior's Paradise's prosperity and

something he hadn't done in a

smaller door behind him. "Get on it,

and

reached the academy rather quickly as the first people started to wake

want to enter the academy," Shang said as he saw teacher

over the gate," he said. "I don't want to stand up right