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?'

suddenly stopped

here 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

gritted his teeth as he looked at his beast sack. 'That's one

What the hell was he doing?! Why

he shouted at himself in his

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

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

CRK!

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

were shooting at Shang aggressively, their tips incredibly sharp. It was like Shang was being attacked by several

middle of the jump, and the branches would impale him

BANG!

towards the top,

BANG!

the ground hard, but his body was powerful enough to resist

see the branches stab through

Shang's

towards the tree in front

branches were hanging out from the spiral. A couple of other branches have transformed

was a perfect example of the words chaos and rampant

BANG!

unleashed an Ice Blast towards his

Shang arrived

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

CRK! CRK!

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

with life energy, but the additional life energy quickly healed his

silent

BANG!

noise, and

looked at the thing in his right

moving around as its mandibles

weapons could touch Shang's hand since he had

huh?' Shang thought as he looked

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

see cats, wolves, bears, and even