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?'

then, Shang suddenly stopped in

here to hunt Pest

'What the hell is wrong with me?!

he looked at his beast

at himself. What the hell

beaks!' he shouted at himself in

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

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 had

CRK!

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

incredibly sharp. It was like Shang was being attacked by

the jump, and the branches would impale him

BANG!

Blast towards

BANG!

the ground hard, but his body

could see the branches stab through

Shang's eyes

tree in

was twisted like a rope, and several dead branches were hanging out from the spiral. A couple of other branches have transformed into

example of the words chaos

BANG!

towards his back, shooting

before Shang arrived directly

arm on the tree's trunk and

CRK! CRK!

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

the additional life

point, Shang heard the silent

BANG!

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

the thing

violently moving around as

could touch Shang's hand since he had perfectly

a Life Scarab, huh?' Shang thought as

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

and even two Pest Cats in the