Sword God in a World of Magic

After a couple of minutes, everyone landed on a hill. Right now, everyone was around ten kilometers away from Warrior's Paradise.

Shang had only been in the Wasteland twice before in his life. Both of the times had been during the night, and his teacher had accompanied him. That was so that Shang wouldn't forget how to fight beasts while he was slowly adapting to his Zero persona.

Today was the first time Shang was in the Wasteland during the peak hours for hunting.

From Warrior's Paradise, the Wasteland had seemed incredibly busy, but now that he was here, he felt like there were no other humans around, except for his team, of course.

The closest humans were over a kilometer away, and they were silently walking in a seemingly random direction.

Shang could also see some beasts, but most of them were embroiled in a battle. Naturally, there were also beasts that weren't fighting humans, but those beasts were mostly either on the blacklist or at the later levels of the General Stage.

"There's an entrance to the Caves over there," Sarah said as she pointed towards the east.

Shang looked over and saw a crater. That was probably the entrance.

After that, Sarah led everyone to the east. It didn't take long for them to arrive near the entrance, and they didn't come across any beasts.

This was the reason for using the talismans. Without them, they would have all needed to get here on foot. Sure, the distance wasn't great to them, but the chances were high that some powerful beast would be in their way, which would require them to move around it in an arc.

Even though the distance of the entrance wasn't very far from Warrior's Paradise, it would have still taken them nearly two hours to traverse if they wanted to be careful.

"You go first, Shang," Sarah ordered. "It's your job to check if everything is safe for us."

Shang nodded and jumped into the huge hole.

BOOOOM!

Shang landed in the cave after some seconds of falling, creating a loud explosion of dirt and earth around him. After all, his body was very heavy. Shang's joints creaked, but he wasn't really injured.

Shang quickly looked around the dark cave. Luckily, the eyes of a General Stage warrior could see clearly, even in nearly perfect darkness.

He saw an ominously circular cave around him made of sand, stone, and dirt. The smooth walls and straight corridors definitely hadn't been naturally formed, but Shang knew about that already.

What were the Caves?

About 200 years ago, the Storm Eagle Zone hadn't belonged to the humans yet. The reason for that was the second Zone Beast.

Beast? There could be two Zone Beasts in one

Well, not entirely.

a second Zone, which had belonged

a gigantic insect that birthed a ridiculous number of

legend, the Ancestor Queen had been over 50

Storm Eagle Zone and the beasts from the Ancestor Queen Zone

Wind versus Earth.

and invade the Storm Eagle Zone, while the beasts of the Storm Eagle Zone went into the nest to kill the insects, but only

that war had

ago, the number of powerful insects diminished. At some point, no insect

from the Storm Eagle Zone had never been interested in entering the nest,

been the insects that attacked

defending themselves and eating, while the insects had been interested

was when the Old King of the

invaded

Why?

more land to

King had always been

years, but eventually, the humans managed to kill every insect in the Caves. Of course, only the King himself could deal with the

then, they found the Ancestor

She was dead.

it had still been

the King had only told them that they didn't need to know. However, he

And that was that.

nest below the Storm Eagle

And the Caves?

of the nest, the former Ancestor Queen

the home of many beasts

could kill so many beasts without completely decimating

This was the reason.

beasts for the Wasteland, but

Turtle had also

as humanity knew, there were no beasts of the Fifth Realm in the Caves, but there were several True

also become more powerful the further south one went. After all, the Canyon was above that

the Storm Eagle Zone, the place where the Wild Forest and the Farm Line

of this from his time at