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.

long as he distributed the negative effects over his

was the very ability that allowed Shang to jump to the top of his

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

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

had already reached that

as someone in the Caterpillar Class, Shang was

except for Mattheo, but only if he used

between Shang and the Trash Bird reached two meters, the Trash Bird suddenly turned its head to

its mouth opened

and tensed his entire

was about

SCREEEEEEEEEE!

left the Trash Bird's beak

at the side began to sway violently under the

BANG!

as the explosion of sound appeared, Shang's eardrums

was so

his brain was

any predator came close to it, it would gather Wind Mana

the most it could do was to make someone woozy and destroy their

die from

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

weapon to hunt but

reasons

had learned a terrifying amount about all the beasts in the Storm Eagle Zone over the last

bit difficult for him to retain his balance, but

down a bit, but he quickly managed

very weird feeling of dissociation as he lost the ability to

almost like he wasn't inside his

he was watching someone

Shang reached the Trash Bird again, it turned its head to him again and

Shang heard

he felt his head hurt and his vision

silence, Shang took out his sword and pointed

to accelerate even more, and he

saw that it was under attack and stopped using its

its next step, its talons dug into the

got a cloud of dirt

the dirt assault his eyes, but he still