Shang walked behind the other three, who scouted the surroundings. The Caves had a very confusing layout, but Sarah had several sheets of paper in her hands, which acted as interconnected maps.

An accurate map was very expensive, but it gave the teams the ability to hunt in the Caves, which was worth the investment.

After some minutes of walking through some confusing tunnels, Shang noticed something. The thick Darkness Mana in the Caves avoided one spot at the ceiling of one of the tunnels, which most likely meant that a different source of Mana that Shang couldn't feel was pushing the Darkness Mana away with its own Mana.

In short, it was a beast.

Shang looked up and saw the beast.

'Crack Spider,' Shang thought when he saw it.

A Crack Spider was a big, armored spider with an Earth Affinity, and it was famous for dropping down on its prey and killing it with its weight.

However, Shang didn't say anything. Crack Spiders were mostly at the Initial General Stage, and since they were ambush predators, they weren't the strongest beasts in a head-on clash. One could say that this beast was a perfect opponent for the team of hunters.

"The Wind Mana isn't flowing as fluently as before anymore," Elver suddenly said with furrowed brows.

At the General Stage, basically every warrior could feel their surroundings as long as a certain amount of Mana of their Affinity was present.

Elver had a Wind Affinity, and a lot of the Wind Mana from the surface also entered the Caves. After all, there was no other Zone Beast present to counteract the Wind Mana with its own Mana.

"Astor," Sarah said.

Astor nodded and summoned a bucket-load of water in front of him, which wasn't very difficult considering that Astor had a Water Affinity.

After that, Astor took out a small stick and poked the water.

SSHHH!

After the stick poked the water, it turned into steam and scattered over the entire cave they were currently in.

Astor closed his eyes to focus.

"The ceiling," he said as he looked up.

Shang nodded when he saw the teamwork. 'Elver is responsible for general scouting, and Astor is responsible for specific scouting.'

her hammer. "This

he took out his

forward while looking at the Crack

below it, it

immediately jumped back

And a second later…

BOOOOOM!

spider landed

"HUUUAAARGH!"

all his power and slashed

CRK!

through the spider's thick armor, but it got stuck

panic and tried to

back, Astor jumped to the side, and the spider's eyes

it jumped towards Astor to bite

put his sword sideways in front of him and leaned

BANG!

away by the spider, but his sword protected

BOOOOM!

in pain and

attacked one

of the leg had exploded off, and

nodded. 'Blunt force is

in front of it and tried

spider jumped away again, but Elver did

spider, but he wasn't supposed to hit

was supposed to gain its attention by constantly

its eyes, and since beasts weren't very good at resisting their instincts, such a barrage of attacks often resulted in them fleeing one time

CRACK!

leg, and the spider quickly focused

attack her, but just an instant later, it felt

same spot again, and a gigantic cut had been left behind on the

spider's organs were falling out of its abdomen, and it panicked, doing everything

as the three of them essentially played

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