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.

Zone Beast? There could be

Well, not entirely.

acted as a second Zone,

Queen had been a gigantic insect that birthed a ridiculous number

legend, the Ancestor Queen had been over

the beasts from the Ancestor Queen

Wind versus Earth.

of the

wasn't sure how long that war had been

insects diminished. At some point, no insect above the Commander Stage left their nest

and stronger from the Storm Eagle Zone had never been interested in entering the nest, which resulted in some kind

had always been the insects that attacked the

only interested in defending themselves and eating, while the insects had been interested in

when the Old King of the

and invaded

Why?

people more land to live

Old King had always been a

every insect in the Caves.

then, they found the Ancestor

She was dead.

had still

King what had happened, but the King had only told them that

And that was that.

Eagle

And the Caves?

of the nest, the former Ancestor Queen

years, it became the home

kill so many beasts without

This was the reason.

General Stage beasts for the

Turtle had also come

beasts of the Fifth Realm

more powerful the beasts would become. Of course, the beasts would also become more powerful the further south one went. After

to the Caves at the northern end of the Storm Eagle Zone, the place where the Wild Forest and the Farm Line were, but humanity had closed these entrances to allow weaker beasts to

knew all of this from his time at