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 it, he had directly known that it was a General Stage

had noticed Shang on one of the trees, and earthen spears appeared around its body, similar to

of one or two, and they

had shot them in a spread at

over the crowns of

after destroying a couple

its prey had fled into the distance

fast, and it could charge

just

wasn't worth

lot of Mana to regenerate his left arm,

flee was precisely how Shang was able

General Stage beasts, and the pangolin had been the only General Stage beast Shang had seen during

Vanishing Snake he

of the

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

Snakes

were great nourishment for Vanishing Snakes, and they loved

General Stage beasts from the Wasteland were on the blacklist. After all, the Wasteland was

Vanishing Snakes kept

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

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

Zone was just very dangerous

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

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

that it was

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

another dog 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 manual

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

done in a long while. "Thanks,"

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

and entered the

the academy rather quickly as the first people started to wake up inside

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

over the gate," he said. "I