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

to hunt

is wrong with me?! I'm here to break Javelin beaks! Why am I suddenly focusing on Pest

teeth as he looked at his beast

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

shouted at

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

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 seen

CRK!

sound of wood violently creaking. Shang's eyes

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

was in the middle of the jump, and the

BANG!

a Fire Blast towards the top, shooting

BANG!

his body was powerful enough to resist such an

see the branches stab through the spot where he had

Shang's eyes

the tree

were hanging out from the spiral. A couple of other

perfect example of

BANG!

an Ice Blast towards his

Shang arrived

the tree's trunk and used

CRK! CRK!

began to shrink rapidly as several branches fell off. It was like the tree had aged by thousands of years

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

silent but

BANG!

noise, and in an instant, he caught

looked at the thing in his

legs violently moving around

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

Life Scarab, huh?' Shang thought as he

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

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