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

here to hunt Pest Cats!' Shang

'What the hell is wrong with me?! I'm here to break Javelin beaks! Why

at his beast sack. 'That's one

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

shouted at himself in his

he jumped from branch to branch, continually

inspected every beast he could find. Many of them were unknown to Shang, but he also saw some

CRK!

of wood violently creaking. Shang's eyes widened as he

incredibly sharp.

in the middle of the jump, and the branches

BANG!

Blast towards the

BANG!

ground hard, but his body was powerful enough to resist

through the spot where he

then, Shang's eyes

looked towards the tree in

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

perfect example of the words chaos and rampant

BANG!

Blast towards his back,

tree couldn't even react before Shang arrived directly in front

nearly destroyed arm on the tree's trunk and used his

CRK! CRK!

was like the tree had aged

life energy, but the additional life

the silent but quick fluttering of

BANG!

the noise, and in an

the thing in

was a white bug, its legs violently moving around as its

its weapons could touch Shang's hand since he had

a Life Scarab, huh?' Shang thought as he looked

the ground. A couple of them were stacked

could see cats, wolves, bears, and even two