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

here to hunt Pest Cats!'

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

teeth as he looked at

the hell was he doing?! Why was he suddenly hunting

beaks!' he shouted at himself in his

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

were unknown to

CRK!

of wood violently creaking. Shang's

branches were shooting at Shang aggressively, their tips incredibly sharp. It was like

was in the middle of the jump,

BANG!

Fire Blast towards the top,

BANG!

his body was powerful enough to

through the

then, Shang's eyes

tree in

and several dead branches were hanging out from the spiral. A

of the words chaos and rampant

BANG!

an Ice Blast towards his back,

even react before Shang arrived directly in front of

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

CRK! CRK!

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

arm became filled with life energy, but the additional life energy quickly healed his

Shang heard the silent but

BANG!

charge towards the noise,

thing in his right

a white bug, its legs violently moving around as its mandibles

touch Shang's hand since he had perfectly caught it

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

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

wolves, bears, and even two Pest Cats