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

to hunt Pest Cats!'

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

gritted his teeth as he looked at

hell was he doing?! Why was he

shouted at

to branch,

next couple of minutes, Shang inspected every beast he 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

tips incredibly sharp.

middle of the jump, and

BANG!

towards the top,

BANG!

but his body was powerful

could see the branches stab through

Shang's

the tree in front

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

tree was a perfect example of the words chaos and rampant

BANG!

an Ice Blast towards his

couldn't even react before Shang

nearly destroyed arm on the tree's trunk and used

CRK! CRK!

to shrink rapidly as several branches fell off. It was like the tree had aged by thousands

filled with life energy, but the additional life energy

silent but quick

BANG!

towards the noise, and in an instant, he caught

looked at the thing

a white bug, its legs violently moving

touch Shang's hand since he had perfectly caught it at

that's a Life Scarab, huh?' Shang thought as he

several corpses lying on the ground. A couple of

bears, and even two Pest Cats in