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.

that something heavy was running in their

worry. I'm confident,"

nodded when they

left the tunnel where

And the beast arrived.

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

saw it,

that thing's on the blacklist,' Shang thought

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

knew what

Tunnel Pangolin.

turning into a ball and rolling over their opponents with their hard exterior

why the Tunnel Pangolins were on 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 didn't like humans very much and tried to avoid them. Lastly, they also loved snacking on

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

Pangolin, he jumped back to block the entrance of the tunnel his team

Shang took out his sword and

CLIIIIINNNGGG!

vibrated loudly, the sound

the noise and turned back into its normal form in

was very susceptible to the

Why?

hunters always used metal as their

metal most likely meant

turned back into its normal form,

a ball again and rolled down

on as the Tunnel Pangolin fled

seemed to be in quite a hurry. If it were hunting, it wouldn't waste so much energy rolling at

afraid

something else come from the tunnel the Tunnel Pangolin had just come from, and that something was giving off a

have a pure Darkness Affinity. It probably

narrowed when he felt

absorbing quite a bit of Darkness

saw the thing reach the top of the slope,

the tunnel for a bit and then focused

"They're gone. Good."

it was a

with black hair

And beside the man…

Hovered a Focus.