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

wrong with me?! I'm here to break

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

himself. What the hell was he doing?! Why was he suddenly hunting Pest

he shouted at

came for Javelin beaks as he jumped from branch to branch,

unknown to Shang, but he also saw some familiar ones. He didn't know their names, but he had seen them

CRK!

to the next, he suddenly heard the sound of

at Shang aggressively, their tips incredibly sharp. It was like Shang was being

of the jump, and the

BANG!

towards the

BANG!

his body was

could see the branches stab through the spot where he had just

then, Shang's eyes

tree in front

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

tree was a perfect example of the words chaos

BANG!

Blast towards his back, shooting him towards

react before Shang arrived directly in

arm on the tree's trunk and

CRK! CRK!

shrink rapidly as several branches fell off. It was like the tree

left arm became filled with life energy, but the additional

the silent but quick fluttering of insect

BANG!

noise, and in an

the thing in

white bug, its legs violently moving around as its mandibles opened and closed

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

Life Scarab, huh?' Shang thought as

noticed several corpses lying on the ground. A couple of them were

wolves, bears, and even