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 was running in

confident,"

and Elver nodded when they heard

everyone had left the tunnel where Shang was

And the beast arrived.

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

when he saw it, he

that thing's on the blacklist,' Shang

rolling up a slope towards Shang. No one would think that this thing

Shang knew what it

Tunnel Pangolin.

Earth Affinity. They were famous for turning into a ball

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 Swamp

no wonder that this thing was on the blacklist with so

Shang saw that it was a Tunnel Pangolin, he jumped back

took out his sword and punched its

CLIIIIINNNGGG!

the

Pangolin heard the noise and turned back into its normal

Tunnel Pangolin was very susceptible to the sound

Why?

hunters always used metal

sound of ringing metal most

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

again and rolled down

on as the Tunnel Pangolin fled down

wouldn't waste so much energy rolling at such

afraid of

that moment, Shang felt something else come from the tunnel the Tunnel Pangolin had just come from, and that something was giving off a kind of

a pure Darkness Affinity. It probably had a

narrowed when he felt the

thing was absorbing quite a bit of

top of the slope, and it stopped

scanned the tunnel for a bit and then focused

"They're gone. Good."

was a

of the tunnel stood a man with black hair and

And beside the man…

Hovered a Focus.