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

worry. I'm confident,"

nodded when they heard Shang's voice

later, everyone had left the tunnel

And the beast arrived.

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

saw it, he

thing's on the blacklist,' Shang thought with

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

Shang knew

Tunnel Pangolin.

for turning into a

tunnels smooth and hard. They essentially were responsible for keeping the Caves from collapsing. On top of that, they didn't like humans very

this thing was on the blacklist with so many

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

took out his sword and punched

CLIIIIINNNGGG!

vibrated loudly, the sound echoing throughout the

turned back into its normal form in

susceptible

Why?

hunters always used metal

sound of ringing metal most likely meant that

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

turned into a ball again and

looked on as the Tunnel Pangolin fled down a different tunnel

waste so much energy

it afraid

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

a pure Darkness Affinity. It probably had

eyes narrowed when he felt

was absorbing quite a bit of

reach the top of the slope, and it stopped at the entrance of

tunnel for a bit and then focused

"They're gone. Good."

was a

entrance of the tunnel stood a man with black hair

And beside the man…

Hovered a Focus.