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.

stumbled a bit, showing that it

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

mole. The mole evaded most of the strikes, but that forced it to retreat

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

like this for over

normal

battle style. He wasn't really used to seeing fights go on

BANG!

managed to push the spear

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

BANG!

bone hit the wall about twenty meters away, and Shang

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

was defenseless, but his eyes remained

prepared himself to intervene. He wasn't sure if

been on the retreat for so long, and

its right claw and tried to

Lash's training kicked

BANG!

the claws outward, diverting the

BOOOM!

sideways behind Lash since it hadn't expected its

charged away from the mole and reached

mole had recovered and already jumped at Lash

eyes focused on the mole's head,

BANG!

same spot it had hit the first time,

pierce through the entire brain, but it managed to destroy parts of

began to convulse as its brain

fight was already over, and

Silence.

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

that action saved Lash's

training, I would have died," Lash said

you only fight with it," Shang said. "There are

its claw to the side, and kill it by using its

imagined that

made sense to him to fight like that, but while fighting

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

needed a lot of training and practice to change one's

a master at hand-to-hand combat before

had a nice flow to it, especially in

possible, get behind the enemy's defenses, and release a

suddenly transformed into a strong gorilla when

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

enemy's power, which wasn't the smartest move when one

was

lost the clash, they could still