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

to hunt Pest Cats!'

is wrong with me?! I'm here to break Javelin

at his beast

at himself. What the hell was

beaks!' he shouted at

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

next couple of minutes, Shang inspected every beast he could find. Many of them were unknown to Shang, but

CRK!

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

sharp. It was like

was in the middle of the jump, and the

BANG!

Fire Blast towards the top, shooting him

BANG!

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

through

then, Shang's eyes

looked towards the tree in front

were hanging out from the spiral.

perfect example of the

BANG!

Ice Blast towards his back, shooting him towards

even react before Shang

destroyed arm on the tree's trunk and

CRK! CRK!

began to shrink rapidly as several branches fell off. It was like

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

Shang heard the silent

BANG!

the noise, and in an instant, he

thing

violently moving

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

a Life Scarab, huh?' Shang thought

on the ground. A couple of them

wolves, bears, and even two Pest Cats