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 stopped in

hunt Pest Cats!' Shang

the side of his head with his right hand. 'What the hell is wrong with

gritted his teeth as he looked at his beast sack.

himself. What the hell was he doing?! Why was he

beaks!' he shouted at himself in his

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

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

CRK!

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

sharp.

was in the middle of the jump, and the branches would impale

BANG!

Blast towards

BANG!

the ground hard, but his body was powerful enough

stab through the spot where he had

then, Shang's eyes

the tree in front of

rope, and several dead branches were hanging out from the spiral. A couple of other branches have transformed into spears, mouths,

of the

BANG!

unleashed an Ice Blast towards his back, shooting him

Shang arrived

put his nearly destroyed arm on the tree's trunk and used his Darkness

CRK! CRK!

as several branches fell off. It was like the tree

left arm became filled with life energy, but the additional life

that point, Shang heard the silent

BANG!

noise, and in an instant,

thing in

was a white bug, its legs violently moving around as

of its weapons could touch Shang's hand since he had perfectly

a Life Scarab, huh?' Shang thought as he looked

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

see cats, wolves, bears, and even two Pest