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.

heavy was running in their

worry. I'm confident,"

they heard Shang's voice and

everyone had left the tunnel where Shang was

And the beast arrived.

approach, but he hadn't been sure what

when he saw

the blacklist,' Shang thought with

Shang. No one would think that

knew what

Tunnel Pangolin.

famous for turning into a ball and rolling over their

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

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

back to block the entrance

out his sword

CLIIIIINNNGGG!

the sound echoing

its normal form in an instant. The transformation

was very susceptible to the sound

Why?

human hunters always used metal as

metal most likely meant

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

ball again and rolled down a

looked on as the Tunnel Pangolin fled down a different tunnel with

wouldn't waste so much energy

afraid

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

Darkness Mana, which meant that this thing didn't have a pure

eyes narrowed when he felt the

thing was absorbing quite a bit

slope, and it stopped at the

tunnel for a bit and then

"They're gone. Good."

was

entrance of the tunnel stood a man with black hair and purple

And beside the man…

Hovered a Focus.