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.

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

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

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

several times, but Lash always managed

fight continued like this

long normal

ended very quickly due to his very explosive and offensive battle style. He wasn't really used to seeing fights go

BANG!

mole managed to push the

still a bit more powerful than his. Together with the

BANG!

hit the wall about twenty

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

Lash was defenseless, but his eyes remained narrowed and

wasn't sure if it was necessary,

jumped back, and the mole jumped forward with its claws. It had been on the retreat for so long, and it could finally go on the

claw and

Lash's training kicked

BANG!

reflex, Lash pushed the claws

BOOOM!

hadn't

charged away from the mole and reached his spear

had recovered and already jumped at Lash

on the mole's head, and

BANG!

spot it had hit

the entire brain, but it managed to destroy parts of

quickly began to

fight was already over, and Lash quickly ended

Silence.

left arm. There were a couple of deep cuts on

action

I would have died," Lash said without

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

could have baited out an attack from the mole, kick its claw to the side, and kill it by using its own charge as additional force for your

that

to him to fight like that, but while fighting the beast, he had reverted to his

like this, and it was difficult to

a lot of training and practice to change one's

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

to it, especially

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

like the fighter was a slippery eel that suddenly transformed into a strong gorilla when the

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 close to the

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

it was

lost the clash,