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

long as he can keep it up,

that forced it to retreat even more. It was simply too big to sidestep the strike, leaving only retreat

strike the bone several times, but Lash

continued like this for

how long normal hunts take?'

explosive and offensive battle style. He wasn't really used to seeing fights go on for so

BANG!

managed to push the spear

more powerful than his. Together with the leverage it had by hitting the spear's

BANG!

hit the wall about twenty meters away, and Shang

is no handle. Even the worst smith knows that a good handle is important. Why would anyone able to create such a powerful weapon refuse to make a good

defenseless, but his

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

had been on the retreat for so long, and it could finally

claw and tried to skewer

Lash's

BANG!

the claws

BOOOM!

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

away from the mole and reached his spear rather

and already jumped

eyes focused on the mole's

BANG!

spot it had hit the first time, and

through the entire brain, but

mole's body quickly began to convulse as its brain

over, and

Silence.

Lash looked at his injured left arm. There were a couple of

action

have died," Lash

only fight with it," Shang said. "There are a couple of things you could

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

imagined that scene and

fight like that, but while fighting the beast, he

and it

training and

had been a master at hand-to-hand combat before he had

flow to it,

compact as possible, get behind the enemy's defenses, and release

fighter was a slippery eel that suddenly transformed into a

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

essentially made his power clash with the enemy's power, which wasn't the smartest move when one was fighting a

it was the safe

if one messed up or lost the clash,