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.

Shang had seen a big pangolin walking through the forest. When Shang had

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

one or two, and

shot them in

of the trees and then used an

earthen spears missed after destroying

saw that its prey had fled into the distance at such

very fast, and it could charge

was too much effort just to kill something

wasn't worth

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

was precisely how Shang was able to

and the pangolin had been the only

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

in the southern part of the northeastern forest had

this place. After all, the young

Snakes

beasts were great nourishment for Vanishing Snakes, and they loved

worth so many Contribution Points. Most progenies of General Stage

Vanishing Snakes kept

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

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

Zone was just very

of traveling, Shang exited the northeastern forest after a profitable

that the sky was a bit brighter than

it was probably around

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

way, Shang saw another dog that was interested in the beast sack. He simply let the dog

still closed, which meant that Shang had

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

politely, something he hadn't done in a

door behind him. "Get on it, rich boy," he said with

and entered the

the first people started to wake

the academy," Shang said as he saw teacher Loran sleeping

lifted his head with boredom. "Just jump over the gate," he