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

worry. I'm confident," Shang

nodded when they heard Shang's voice and

left the tunnel where Shang was

And the beast arrived.

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

saw it, he

the blacklist,' Shang

up a slope towards Shang. No one would think

knew what it

Tunnel Pangolin.

beasts with an Earth Affinity. They were famous for turning into a ball and

the blacklist was that they kept the tunnels smooth and hard. They essentially were responsible for keeping the Caves from collapsing. On top of that, they

this thing was on the blacklist with so

Shang saw that it was a Tunnel Pangolin, he jumped back to block the entrance

out his sword and punched its

CLIIIIINNNGGG!

loudly, the sound echoing throughout the

Tunnel Pangolin heard the noise and turned back into its normal

very susceptible to the sound of

Why?

hunters always used

sound of ringing metal most likely meant that humans were

into its

again

on as the Tunnel Pangolin fled down a

were hunting, it wouldn't waste so much energy rolling at such speeds up a slope. It would climb the slope with

afraid

the Tunnel Pangolin had just come from,

meant that this thing didn't have a pure

narrowed when he felt the

was absorbing quite

the top of the slope, and

tunnel for a

"They're gone. Good."

it was a

the tunnel stood a man with black hair and purple robes. His eyes seemed to be emotionless and

And beside the man…

Hovered a Focus.