Sword God in a World of Magic

The team continued walking, but the entire atmosphere had changed.

Earlier, the team felt professional, calm, and collected.

Now, there was anger and hostility in the air.

Over the next hour, Shang found another Early General Stage beast and made the team avoid it.

Then, they finally found the next Initial General Stage beast.

Even though there was hostility in the air, the teamwork was still impeccable, and everyone did their job.

The only difference was the lack of communication after the beast was dead.

Astor tried to lift the spirits of everyone, but he was mostly ignored.

In the end, Astor could only sigh and wait for the hunt to be over.

Two hours later, the team had hunted two more beasts, leaving only one spot open in Sarah's Space Ring.

This was an insanely profitable day for them.

Even with Shang's share, they had all earned several days' worth of gold in these couple of hours.

Hunting in the Caves was dangerous but very profitable.

Sarah decided that the team would walk back. If they met another beast on their journey, great, but if they didn't, it would also be okay. Being too greedy and going further away from their exit was a recipe for disaster.

The team avoided a couple of beasts on their way back, and everything was proceeding smoothly.

That was, until a certain moment.

Shang's eyes suddenly narrowed. "You run back!" Shang shouted as he took out his big sword. "It's time for me to do my job."

Elver and Astor looked with confusion and surprise at Shang while Sarah narrowed her eyes.

"You heard him!" Sarah shouted as she accelerated. "Move it!"

As Sarah left, Elver and Astor looked nervously at Shang.

Then, they felt vibrations coming from the ground.

heavy was running in

I'm confident,"

Elver nodded when they heard Shang's voice and

had left

And the beast arrived.

the beast approach, but he hadn't been sure what exactly it was until he saw

saw it, he

on the blacklist,'

slope towards Shang. No one would think that this thing was a beast

knew what it

Tunnel Pangolin.

for turning into a ball and

and hard. They essentially were responsible for keeping the Caves from collapsing. On top of that, they didn't like humans very much and tried to avoid them. Lastly, they also

no wonder that this thing was on the blacklist with so many benefits

back to block the

out his sword

CLIIIIINNNGGG!

loudly, the sound echoing

Tunnel Pangolin heard the noise and turned back into its normal form in an instant. The transformation was incredibly smooth

was very susceptible to the

Why?

hunters always used

ringing metal most likely meant that humans

soon as the Tunnel Pangolin turned back into its normal form,

ball again and rolled down a

on as the Tunnel Pangolin fled down a different tunnel with furrowed

it wouldn't waste so much energy rolling at such speeds up

it afraid of

the tunnel the Tunnel Pangolin had just

a pure Darkness Affinity. It probably had a

eyes narrowed when he felt the

quite a

thing reach the top of the slope, and it stopped at the

for a bit and then

"They're gone. Good."

was

with black hair and purple robes. His eyes seemed to be emotionless and

And beside the man…

Hovered a Focus.