Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang definitely didn't look forward to fighting the Trash Bird. Sadly, such an opponent was the optimal choice for him.

Beasts at the Initial General Stage already had overwhelmingly powerful bodies, and Shang had to use his entire repertoire of smarts and tactics to fight them.

And then, he could only fight the weakest General Stage beasts.

Shang didn't dare to attempt to fight a beast that was actually powerful in a direct confrontation. Just their speed alone was already ridiculous.

Shang charged into the northwestern forest, leaving the defense behind. He was actually glad that the Trash Bird fled into the forest since Shang wouldn't have to worry about prying eyes.

The Trash Bird was around three meters tall, and it didn't have it very easy passing through the Wild Forest. It wasn't built for traversing a dense forest since its home was the Wasteland. On top of that, whenever it destroyed a tree, it got slowed down by a lot.

Following the Trash Bird's trail wasn't difficult. It would be harder to not know where it was with its constant screeching.

After a couple of seconds, Shang came close to the Trash Bird. Right now, Shang didn't need to be careful since the hunters were blocking all General Stage beasts from entering the Wild Forest.

Ironically enough, the day that the most beasts entered battle was also the day the Wild Forest was at its safest.

As Shang started to close in on the Trash Bird, something happened to his body.

A white mist was left behind by Shang's legs as he accelerated to higher speeds.

If someone with an Ice Affinity were here, they would be able to feel a cloud of Ice Mana leaving Shang's body.

At this moment, Shang reached the speed of an Initial General Stage warrior.

And even more, this was not a momentary increase!

Shang could keep this going indefinitely!

How?!

Well, after a lot of training with his Affinities, Shang had unlocked the ability to release his Affinities from other parts of his body with a lessened effect.

At the moment, Shang was continually shooting out Ice Mana from his back and legs, increasing his speed.

But wouldn't that heat up his body?

Yes, it would, but if it got too hot, Shang could simply switch to releasing Fire Mana. As long as he didn't change the temperature of his body too quickly, it wouldn't become injured.

Something like this would be impossible if Shang only used his left arm. After all, his left arm had only so much mass.

negative effects over his entire

higher level was the very ability that

only counted for the Caterpillar Class. Amongst the other students, there were still several that were more

Martial Arts could achieve the same effect. Of course, one first needed to train for a long time in them to reach such

already reached that

Shang

for Mattheo, but only if he used

reached two meters, the Trash Bird suddenly

its mouth

his teeth and tensed his

knew what was about to

SCREEEEEEEEEE!

left the

side began to sway violently under the explosion

BANG!

of

so

he felt like his brain was bumping into all the corners of his

was the Trash Bird's primary defensive weapon. If any predator came close to it, it would gather Wind

all, the most it could do was to

die

inflict pain upon their ears. On top of that, the predator might lose their balance and fall

weapon to hunt

of the reasons why hunters hated hunting

a terrifying amount about all the beasts in the Storm Eagle Zone over the last year. Because of that, Shang had known what

for him to retain

a bit, but he quickly managed to

Shang also felt a very weird feeling of dissociation as he lost the ability

almost like he wasn't

was like he was watching someone

its head to him again and released the

Shang

head hurt

silence, Shang took out his sword and pointed towards his back with

Fire Blast to accelerate even more,

was

next step, its

got a cloud of dirt thrown into his

dirt assault his eyes, but he