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 in

not here to hunt Pest

hell is wrong

as he looked at

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

at himself in

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

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

CRK!

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

shooting at Shang aggressively, their tips incredibly sharp. It was

the jump, and the branches would impale him

BANG!

Fire Blast towards the top, shooting him

BANG!

but his body was powerful enough to resist such an

stab through

then, Shang's

towards the tree in

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

of the words

BANG!

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

couldn't even react before Shang arrived directly in front

on the

CRK! CRK!

several branches fell off. It was

arm became filled with life energy, but the additional life energy quickly healed

point, Shang heard the silent but quick fluttering of insect

BANG!

noise, and in an instant, he caught up, catching the

looked at the thing in

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

none of its weapons could touch Shang's hand since he had

Shang

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

see cats, wolves, bears, and even