Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang and Lash went into one of the caves in one of the tall mountains and descended the tunnel.

After a couple of minutes, they found several Soldier Stage beasts, but they ignored them.

The Soldier Stage beasts also felt that these two humans were too powerful, and they ran whenever they saw the two.

The cave was dark, and in comparison to the Caves in the Storm Eagle Zone, they looked natural.

They were also far less confusing from a layout perspective.

After a couple of minutes, they found the first General Stage beasts, but they also avoided the two humans.

When they saw a Mid General Stage beast, they noticed that it didn't immediately retreat. Instead, it stayed around but didn't attack them.

They continued, and a couple of minutes later, they saw a Late General Stage beast.

It was a five-meter-long mole with rocky armor and long, sharp claws.

"Can you kill it alone?" Shang asked Lash.

Lash estimated the mole's power for a couple of seconds.

"I don't know," he said.

Shang nodded. "Then, that's good training. Fight it. If I see that you are about to die, I will intervene and kill it."

Lash took a deep breath.

This would be a difficult fight.

After some seconds, he charged at the mole. The mole hadn't noticed them up to now, but as soon as it saw Lash approach, it sharpened its claws, which began to grow even more.

Lash also took out his own weapon.

Lash was one of the more powerful barbarians, and he also had his own weapon.

His weapon was a huge spike made out of hard bone. It couldn't be called a spear since it lacked the finesse of a spear. It was literally just a big, sharpened piece of bone.

However, its weight and power were still astonishing. Shang guessed that this bone came from an Initial Commander Stage beast, and even though it hadn't been crafted with a lot of finesse, it probably had been very expensive.

The two of them charged at each other.

And then, they both attacked.

BANG!

Lash pushed his long bone forward, hitting the mole on its head.

It broke through the earth armor, its skin, and its muscles, but it eventually got stuck in the mole's skull.

The mole's attack had missed since it had misjudged Lash's reach.

The mole screamed in pain and jumped back.

enough, it also stumbled a bit, showing that it had received a

the initiative,' Shang thought. 'As long as he can keep it up, he will eventually

stabbing his bone towards the mole. The mole evaded most of the strikes, but that forced it to retreat even more. It was simply too big to sidestep the strike, leaving

bone several times, but Lash always managed to make the mole

continued like this

long normal hunts take?'

offensive battle style. He wasn't really used to

BANG!

mole managed to push the spear to

bit more powerful than his. Together with the leverage it had by hitting the spear's tip, it managed to throw the bone out

BANG!

the wall about twenty meters away, and Shang

worst smith knows that a good handle is important.

weapon, Lash was defenseless, but his eyes

He wasn't sure if it was

jumped back, and the mole jumped forward with its claws. It had been on

its right claw and

that moment, Lash's

BANG!

of reflex, Lash pushed the claws

BOOOM!

mole landed sideways behind Lash since it hadn't expected its force to

mole and reached his spear rather

recovered and

eyes focused on the mole's head, and

BANG!

hit the first time, and the

entire brain, but

mole's body quickly began to convulse

was already over, and Lash quickly ended

Silence.

looked at his injured left arm. There were a couple of deep cuts on it since it

that action saved

I would have died," Lash said without looking away

doesn't mean that you only fight with it," Shang said. "There are a couple

from the mole, kick its claw to the side, and kill it by using its own charge as additional force for

imagined that scene

but while

used to fighting beasts like this, and it was difficult to change it on a

training and practice to change

master at hand-to-hand combat

nice flow to it, especially in the ground

get behind the enemy's

was a slippery eel that suddenly

style had built upon that. When he fought beasts, he mainly focused on evading their attacks and getting even closer while doing so, and when he was

with the enemy's power, which wasn't

was

up or lost the clash, they could still