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

worry. I'm confident," Shang

when they heard Shang's voice and

had left the tunnel where Shang

And the beast arrived.

hadn't been sure what exactly it was

when he saw

thing's on the blacklist,' Shang

No one would

knew what

Tunnel Pangolin.

Affinity. They were famous for turning into

essentially were responsible for keeping the Caves from collapsing. On top of that, they

was on the blacklist with so many

a Tunnel Pangolin, he jumped back to block the entrance of the tunnel

out his sword and punched its

CLIIIIINNNGGG!

vibrated loudly, the sound echoing throughout

noise and turned back into its normal form in an instant.

very susceptible to

Why?

hunters always used metal as

most likely meant

the Tunnel Pangolin turned back into

a ball again and rolled down

as the Tunnel Pangolin fled down a different tunnel with furrowed

much energy rolling at such speeds

afraid of

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

which meant that this thing didn't have a pure Darkness Affinity.

when he felt the

absorbing quite a

the slope, and it stopped

scanned the tunnel for a bit

"They're gone. Good."

it was a

tunnel stood a man with black hair and purple robes. His

And beside the man…

Hovered a Focus.