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

hunt Pest Cats!' Shang

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

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

and angry at himself. What the hell was he doing?! Why was he suddenly

beaks!' he shouted at himself in

he came for Javelin beaks as he jumped from branch to branch, continually shoving the image of the bloodied face into the back

beast he could find. Many of them were unknown to Shang, but he

CRK!

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

tips incredibly sharp. It was like Shang was being attacked by several

the jump,

BANG!

Fire Blast towards

BANG!

the ground hard, but his body was powerful enough to

stab through

then, Shang's eyes

tree in front of

tree. It was twisted like a rope, and several dead branches were hanging out

a perfect example of the words chaos and rampant

BANG!

unleashed an Ice Blast towards his back, shooting him towards the

before Shang arrived

on the tree's trunk

CRK! CRK!

off. It was like the tree had aged by thousands of years in an

left arm became filled with life energy, but the additional life energy quickly healed his arm, making everything return

heard the silent but quick fluttering of

BANG!

again to charge towards the noise, and in an instant, he caught up, catching

looked at the thing in his right

was a white bug, its legs violently moving

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

huh?' Shang

looked around the area and noticed several corpses lying on the ground. A couple of them were stacked around the tree itself, but many

could see cats, wolves, bears, and even two Pest Cats in