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.

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

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

there were six spears instead of one or two,

them

to jump over the crowns of the trees and

missed after destroying a couple of

saw that its prey had fled into the distance at

and it could charge forward, destroying

was too much effort just to kill something

worth the

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

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

had been the only General Stage beast Shang had seen during the

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

in the southern part of the northeastern forest had been

After all, the young of the General Stage beasts walked around this place, and

Snakes thrived

General Stage beasts were great nourishment for Vanishing Snakes, and they

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

Vanishing Snakes kept killing these

kill so many young also showed

managed to expand the swamp towards the Wasteland, the Wasteland

Cobra Zone was just very dangerous

an hour of traveling, Shang exited the

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

it was probably around 4

quickly. This time, he wasn't near the Farm

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

Warrior's Paradise shortly before sunrise. The big gates were still

he closed

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

and gestured to the smaller door behind him. "Get

and entered

first people started to wake up inside

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

boredom. "Just jump over the gate," he said. "I don't want to stand