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.

the forest. When Shang had

trees, and earthen spears appeared around its body, similar to what the Ice Spear Bear

there were six spears instead of one or two, and they moved

them in

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

missed after destroying a couple

pangolin saw that its prey had fled

the pangolin was very fast, and it could charge forward, destroying all the trees

just to

wasn't worth

a lot of Mana to regenerate his left arm, but it was

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

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

the Vanishing Snake he

the

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

Vanishing Snakes thrived

young of General Stage beasts were great nourishment for Vanishing Snakes, and they loved hunting

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.

Snakes

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

to expand the swamp towards the Wasteland, the Wasteland might actually

Empress Cobra Zone was just very dangerous

Shang exited the northeastern forest after

east and saw that the sky was a bit brighter than in the middle of the night, but it

that it was probably around

wasn't near the Farm Line since he had been hunting in the southern part of the

beast sack. He simply let the dog sniff

before sunrise. The big gates were still closed, which meant

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

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

door behind him. "Get on it,

nodded and entered

quickly as the first people

as he saw teacher Loran sleeping near

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