Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang didn't hesitate for long. "Okay," he said.

The Sweeper nodded. "The Ancestral Beasts don't dare to fight too much. They can all feel the power of the Eternal Maw in the distance, and they fear that they might attract its attention by fighting."

"The Archbeasts don't mind too much since they know that they won't attract the attention of the Eternal Maw. You might have to fight some Archbeasts, but you should be powerful enough to deal with most of them."

"If any of them prove to be too powerful, simply come back to my Spirit Sense, and I will deal with them for you. You should be able to survive for a while with Mana Step and Mana Shield," the Sweeper said.

Shang only nodded.

"I'll be waiting here," the Sweeper said.

Without saying anything further, Shang flew towards the east.

Thanks to his huge Spirit Sense, he could avoid nearly all the powerful Archbeasts without any problems. Sure, he entered plenty of Spirit Senses of Ancestral Beasts, but just like the Sweeper said, they only quietly remained in their spots.

Additionally, Shang was still wearing the cloak the Sweeper had given him, which helped him even more in staying hidden.

Shang continued traveling for a couple of minutes. Since he didn't need to avoid every single beast, he didn't need to zigzag around and could just go toward the east in a straight line.

By now, the Sweeper was no longer in Shang's Spirit Sense.

The world around Shang became browner as fewer and fewer plants appeared. The Ancestral Beasts also became fewer and fewer.

But the number of Archbeasts actually shot up.

While the Ancestral Beasts had to be careful, the Archbeasts didn't, and Shang could see more and more.

'Not there yet,' Shang thought as he continued.

Suddenly, Shang's instincts began screaming at him.

Shang couldn't see any beast that was attacking him, but he felt like he was under attack.

immediately realized that he was being attacked by one of those beasts that

to Spirit Senses, these kinds of beasts were extremely good at looking through that kind of camouflage. On top of

attack coming his way, but he

hand to

it didn't

a greater Spirit Sense,

at this moment, and Shang didn't want to show his true

and shot toward the direction where Shang was pointing his left arm

CRR!

Mana immediately hit something and was blocked, allowing Shang to perceive the attacker simply by looking at where the Mana

snake, nearly 200 meters

humongous, but for an Archbeast, that

were often several kilometers big, and Archbeasts were mainly between 200 and 500 meters long. 200 meters was the

had already expected that. These kinds of ambush hunters were

Shang with its widely

Early Archbeast,' he thought. 'It isn't that fast, and it doesn't

'Shouldn't be a problem.'

snake gathered in front of Shang's hand in an instant. The Mana was so fast that it seemed

shoved

BANG!

hit something and stopped in the air. It was like

but its

his World Connection to compress the Mana in the surroundings

Connection was of a higher Realm than

invisible shield, Shang pulled his right hand back and formed

Then, he chopped.

hand and slashed forward like a humongous

CRACK! BANG!

now, there were nearly no trees around, and the world looked more like a

of dust exploded from the spot where the

died, but Shang knew that it was still

all, this was a beast a level above him. While his World Connection was