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?'

Shang suddenly

to hunt Pest

grabbed the side of his head with his right hand. 'What the hell is wrong with me?! I'm here to break Javelin beaks! Why

looked at his beast sack. 'That's one hour

became frustrated and angry at himself. What the hell was he doing?! Why was he suddenly hunting Pest

shouted at

continued reminding himself that he came for Javelin beaks as he jumped from branch to branch, continually shoving the image of the bloodied face into the back of his

he could find. Many of them were unknown to Shang, but he also saw some familiar ones. He didn't know

CRK!

of wood violently creaking. Shang's eyes widened as he looked toward the tree he was jumping

sharp. It was like Shang was being attacked by

middle of the jump, and the branches would impale him

BANG!

released a Fire Blast towards the top,

BANG!

but his body

through the

then, Shang's eyes

the tree

was twisted like a rope, and several dead branches were hanging out from the spiral. A couple of other

perfect example of

BANG!

an Ice Blast towards his back, shooting him towards the

couldn't even react before Shang arrived directly in front

arm on the tree's trunk

CRK! CRK!

as several branches fell off. It was like the tree had aged by thousands of years in

additional life energy quickly healed

point, Shang heard the silent but quick fluttering

BANG!

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

at the thing in his right

moving around as its mandibles opened and closed

none of its weapons could touch Shang's hand since he had perfectly caught it at its

Shang thought as

around the area and noticed several corpses lying on the ground. A couple of them were stacked around the tree itself, but many

bears, and even