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.

something heavy was

I'm confident,"

when they heard Shang's voice and followed

later, everyone had left the tunnel where Shang was

And the beast arrived.

approach, but he hadn't been sure what exactly

when he saw it,

on the blacklist,'

Shang. No one would think

knew

Tunnel Pangolin.

an Earth Affinity. They were famous for turning into

kept the tunnels smooth and hard. They essentially were responsible for keeping the Caves from collapsing. On top

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

Pangolin, he jumped back to

Shang took out his

CLIIIIINNNGGG!

loudly, the sound echoing

noise and turned back into its normal form in

Tunnel Pangolin was very susceptible to

Why?

used metal as

most likely meant

back into its normal form, it looked around and

turned into a ball again and rolled down

as the Tunnel Pangolin fled down a different tunnel

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

it afraid

come from the tunnel the Tunnel Pangolin had just come from, and

thing didn't have a pure Darkness Affinity. It probably had a Mixed Affinity that

when he

was absorbing quite a bit of Darkness

slope, and it stopped at the entrance of the tunnel where Shang

a bit and then focused on

"They're gone. Good."

was

hair and purple robes. His

And beside the man…

Hovered a Focus.