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.

a bit, showing that it had received a heavy

got the initiative,' Shang thought. 'As long as he can keep

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,

strike the bone several times, but Lash always

like this for

how long normal hunts take?'

offensive battle style. He wasn't

BANG!

managed to push the

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

BANG!

the wall about twenty

is too big, and there is no handle. Even the worst smith knows that a good handle is

was defenseless, but his eyes remained

intervene. He wasn't sure if it was necessary, but he

forward with its claws. It had been on the retreat for so

extended its right claw and

Lash's

BANG!

Lash pushed the

BOOOM!

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

the mole and reached

had recovered and already jumped at

on the mole's head, and he

BANG!

same spot it had hit the first time, and the mole's skull

the entire brain, but it managed

to convulse

over, and

Silence.

arm. There were a couple of deep cuts on

action saved Lash's

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

only fight with it," Shang

to the side, and kill

that scene and

made sense to him to fight like that, but while

beasts like this, and it

a lot of training and practice to change

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

to it, especially in

as compact as possible, get behind

was like the fighter was a slippery eel that suddenly transformed

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

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

was the safe

lost