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

of the trees, and earthen spears

were six spears instead of one or

pangolin had shot them in a

over the crowns of the trees and then used an

earthen spears missed after destroying a couple

had fled into the distance at such speeds, it

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

too much effort just to

worth

of Mana

precisely how Shang was able to hunt in the southern part of the

there weren't that many General Stage beasts, and the pangolin had been the only General Stage beast Shang

Vanishing Snake he had just killed

the northeastern forest had

all, the young of the General Stage

Snakes thrived

great nourishment for Vanishing Snakes,

Contribution Points. Most progenies of General Stage beasts from the Wasteland were on the blacklist. After all, the Wasteland was the biggest moneymaker for Warrior's

Snakes

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

to expand the swamp towards the Wasteland, the

Cobra Zone was

hour of traveling, Shang exited the

saw that the sky was a bit brighter than in the middle of the night, but it also wasn't

was probably

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

that was interested in the beast sack. He simply let the dog sniff

were still closed, which meant that Shang had to go through a

guard said with a smile as he closed the beast sack

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

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

and entered the

the academy rather quickly as the first people started to wake

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

the gate," he said. "I don't want