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

worry. I'm confident,"

Elver nodded when they heard Shang's voice

left the tunnel where Shang

And the beast arrived.

been

when he saw

that thing's on the blacklist,'

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

knew what it

Tunnel Pangolin.

Affinity. They were famous for turning into a ball and rolling over their opponents with their hard exterior and

the 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 to avoid them. Lastly, they also

thing was on the blacklist with so many

jumped back to block

his sword

CLIIIIINNNGGG!

vibrated loudly, the

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

was very susceptible to

Why?

used metal as

sound of ringing metal most likely meant that

turned back into its normal form,

again and rolled down a different

as the Tunnel Pangolin fled down a

much energy

afraid of

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

quite a bit of Darkness

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

the tunnel for a

"They're gone. Good."

it was

with black hair and

And beside the man…

Hovered a Focus.