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.

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

on one of the trees, and earthen spears appeared around its body, similar to what the Ice Spear

of one or two, and they moved with far greater

shot them

used his left arm to jump over the crowns of the trees and then used an Ice Blast to shoot into

missed after

the pangolin saw that its prey had fled into

and it could charge forward, destroying all the trees in the

effort just to kill something at the

wasn't worth the

cost Shang a lot of Mana

to quickly flee was precisely how Shang was able

and the pangolin had been the

of the Vanishing Snake he had

the northeastern forest had

all, the young of the General Stage beasts walked around this place, and they were generally more powerful than

Snakes thrived

were great nourishment for Vanishing Snakes, and they loved

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. After all, the Wasteland was the biggest moneymaker

the Vanishing Snakes

of that, the fact that the Vanishing Snakes could kill so many young also showed how dangerous the Empress Cobra

to expand the swamp towards the Wasteland, the Wasteland

Zone was just very

the

the sky was a bit brighter than in the middle of the night, but it also

was

wasn't near the Farm Line since he had

beast sack. He simply let the dog sniff the beast sack for

shortly before sunrise. The big 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

only smiled politely, something he hadn't done in a

and gestured to the smaller door behind him. "Get

and entered the

rather quickly as the first people started to

to enter the academy," Shang said as he saw teacher

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