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.

meant that something heavy

confident," Shang

they

seconds later, everyone had left the tunnel

And the beast arrived.

beast approach, but he hadn't been sure what exactly it

when he saw

that thing's on the blacklist,' Shang thought with

one would think that this thing was a beast

knew what it

Tunnel Pangolin.

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

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

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

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

took out his

CLIIIIINNNGGG!

the sound echoing

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

was very susceptible to the sound

Why?

always used metal as

metal most likely meant

the Tunnel Pangolin turned back into its normal form, it looked around and

into a ball again and rolled down

looked on as the Tunnel Pangolin fled down a

waste so much energy rolling at such speeds up a slope. It would climb the slope with

it afraid of

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

pure Darkness Mana, which meant that this thing didn't have a pure Darkness Affinity. It probably had a Mixed

narrowed when

was absorbing quite a bit of Darkness

the thing reach the top of the slope, and it stopped at the entrance of the tunnel where

the tunnel for a bit and

"They're gone. Good."

it was a

black hair and purple robes. His eyes seemed

And beside the man…

Hovered a Focus.