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," Shang said

when they heard Shang's voice

seconds later, everyone had left

And the beast arrived.

approach, but he hadn't been sure what

when he saw

on the blacklist,' Shang thought

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

Shang knew

Tunnel Pangolin.

beasts with an Earth Affinity. They were famous for turning into a ball and rolling over their

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

was no wonder that this thing was on the blacklist

was a Tunnel Pangolin, he jumped back to

out his sword

CLIIIIINNNGGG!

the

and turned back into its normal form in an instant. The transformation was

susceptible to

Why?

always used metal as

metal most likely

soon as the Tunnel Pangolin turned back into its normal form,

into a ball again

looked on as the Tunnel Pangolin fled down a different tunnel

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

it afraid

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

a pure Darkness Affinity.

eyes narrowed when he felt the

absorbing quite a bit of

the slope, and it stopped at

tunnel for a

"They're gone. Good."

it was

tunnel stood a man with black hair and purple robes.

And beside the man…

Hovered a Focus.