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

confident," Shang said

Elver nodded when they heard

seconds later, everyone had left the tunnel where

And the beast arrived.

he hadn't been

saw

the blacklist,' Shang thought with

gigantic, yellowish-brown ball was rolling up a slope towards Shang. No one would think that this thing was a

knew what

Tunnel Pangolin.

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

on the blacklist was that they kept the tunnels smooth and hard. They essentially were responsible for keeping the Caves from collapsing. On

thing was on the blacklist

it was a Tunnel Pangolin, he jumped back to block the entrance of the tunnel his team had

took out his sword

CLIIIIINNNGGG!

vibrated loudly, the

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

Tunnel Pangolin was very susceptible to the sound of

Why?

human hunters always used metal as

of ringing metal most likely meant that humans

into its normal form, it looked around and

into a ball again and rolled

Pangolin fled down a different tunnel

a hurry. If it were hunting, it wouldn't waste so much energy rolling at such speeds up a slope. It would climb the slope

afraid of

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

thing didn't have a pure Darkness Affinity. It

eyes narrowed when he felt the

thing was absorbing quite a

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

for a bit and then focused on

"They're gone. Good."

was a

black hair and purple robes. His eyes seemed to be

And beside the man…

Hovered a Focus.