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.

pangolin walking through the forest. When Shang had seen

trees, and earthen spears appeared around its body, similar to

of one or two, and they moved with far

pangolin had shot them in a spread

jump over the crowns of the

after destroying a couple

that its prey had fled into

and it could charge forward, destroying all the

too much effort just to kill something

worth

maneuver cost Shang a lot of Mana

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

that many General Stage beasts, and the pangolin had

the corpse of the Vanishing Snake he had just killed and

southern part of the northeastern forest had been

even the Pest Cats weren't as numerous in this place. After all, the young of the General Stage beasts walked around this place,

Snakes

great nourishment for Vanishing Snakes, and they loved hunting

showed once again why the Vanishing Snakes were worth so many Contribution Points. Most progenies of General Stage

the Vanishing Snakes kept

fact that the Vanishing Snakes could kill so many young also

swamp towards the Wasteland, the

Zone was just

about an hour of traveling, Shang exited the northeastern forest after a

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

was probably

west and reached the street rather quickly. This time, he wasn't near the Farm Line since he had

simply let the dog sniff the beast sack

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

Snakes," the inspecting guard said with a smile as he closed the beast sack again. "You're protecting

done in a long while. "Thanks," he

the smaller door behind him. "Get

nodded and entered the

reached the academy rather quickly as the first people started to

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

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