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.

showing that it had received

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

continued 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 only retreat

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

fight continued like this for over two

this how long normal hunts take?'

battle style. He

BANG!

to push the

was a level below Lash, its body was still a bit more powerful than his. Together with the leverage it had by hitting the spear's tip, it managed to throw the bone out of

BANG!

hit the wall about twenty meters

smith knows that a good handle is important. Why would anyone

weapon, Lash was defenseless, but his eyes remained narrowed and

wasn't sure if it was necessary, but he had to

been on the retreat for so long, and

its right claw and tried

Lash's training kicked

BANG!

Lash pushed the claws

BOOOM!

since it hadn't expected its

charged away from the mole and

had recovered and already jumped

the mole's head,

BANG!

spear hit the same spot it had hit the first time, and

didn't pierce through the entire brain, but it managed

to convulse as its brain

was already over,

Silence.

left arm. There were a couple of deep cuts on it since

action saved Lash's

training, I would have died," Lash said without looking away from his

doesn't mean that you only fight with it," Shang said.

example, you could have baited out an attack from the mole, kick its claw to the side, and kill it by using

imagined that

that, but while fighting

and

of training and practice to change one's fighting

master at hand-to-hand combat before he had even received his first

to it, especially

as compact as possible, get behind the enemy's

suddenly transformed into

he fought beasts, he mainly focused on evading their attacks and getting even closer while doing so, and when he was close to the enemy, he

his power clash with the enemy's power, which wasn't

was

one messed up or lost the