Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang jumped onto the first tree in the northwestern forest as always. Running on the ground was dangerous.

As Shang jumped from tree to tree, he noticed that he felt uncomfortable.

Why?

Because Shang was usually hunting at night, and at night, he could somewhat feel his surroundings thanks to his Darkness Affinity.

However, during the day, Light and Darkness Mana were mixed inside the forest. After all, even during the day, a thick forest was not very bright.

There was not enough Light Mana nor Darkness Mana to scout the surroundings.

Shang hadn't noticed until now how much he had relied on his Darkness Vision.

Nevertheless, Shang didn't intend to cancel his mission. He wanted to get the Fire ore as soon as possible.

In his mind, he had already wasted two weeks by not being able to practice his techniques due to his weak weapon. Every additional day felt like another wasted day.

Since Shang was now alone without any distractions, he saw the bloodied face return again.

It didn't appear in the surroundings like some specter, but the image that had been burned into Shang's mind simply replaced his vision time and time again for a short instant.

Shang pushed the image away again and again, telling himself that he was under control.

Sadly, it always came back.

'I didn't make a mistake.'

'Empathy is weakness in this world.'

'I can't be light on my enemies.'

Absentmindedly, Shang inspected his surroundings.

When he saw a Pest Cat, he killed it, but since it was during the day, he couldn't find many of them. He found most of them by following traces and entering their nests.

After an hour, Shang had already killed 20 Pest Cats. One of their nests had had young in them, which had given him another twelve.

'I should have hunted during the night. It's difficult to find Pest Cats during the day. Why did I decide to hunt in the middle of the day?'

then, Shang suddenly stopped in

to hunt Pest

right hand. 'What the hell is wrong with me?! I'm here to

at his beast sack. 'That's

frustrated and angry at himself. What the hell

beaks!' he shouted at himself in

he jumped from branch to branch, continually shoving the image of the bloodied face into

of minutes, Shang inspected every beast he could find. Many of them were unknown to Shang, but he

CRK!

he suddenly heard the sound of wood violently creaking. Shang's eyes widened as

aggressively, their tips incredibly sharp. It

jump, and the branches would

BANG!

a Fire Blast towards the top,

BANG!

his body was powerful enough to resist such an

could see the branches stab through

then, Shang's eyes

tree in

abomination of a tree. It was twisted like a rope, and several dead branches were hanging out from the spiral. A couple of other branches have transformed into spears, mouths, claws, teeth, and different

tree was a perfect example of the words chaos and

BANG!

his back, shooting him towards the

before Shang arrived

put his nearly destroyed arm on the

CRK! CRK!

fell off. It was like the tree had

additional life energy quickly healed his arm, making everything return to

silent but quick fluttering of insect

BANG!

Fire Blast again to charge towards the noise, and in an

looked at the thing

violently moving

its weapons could touch Shang's hand since he

huh?' Shang

and noticed several corpses lying on the ground. A couple of them were stacked around the tree

cats, wolves, bears, and even two Pest