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.

bit, showing

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

The mole evaded most of the strikes, but that forced it to retreat even more. It was simply

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

continued like this

this how long normal hunts take?' Shang

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

BANG!

to push the spear to

though the mole 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

BANG!

wall about twenty meters away,

knows that a good handle is

was defenseless, but his eyes

prepared himself to intervene. He wasn't sure if

with its claws. It had been on the retreat for

extended its right claw and tried to

that moment, Lash's training

BANG!

Lash pushed the claws outward, diverting the mole's

BOOOM!

hadn't expected its force

away from the mole and reached his spear rather

had recovered and already jumped at

on the mole's head, and

BANG!

same spot it had hit the first time, and the

pierce through the entire brain, but it

quickly began to convulse as

was already over, and Lash quickly ended

Silence.

the fight, Lash looked at his injured left arm. There were a couple

action saved Lash's

have died," Lash said without looking away

a weapon doesn't mean that you only fight with it," Shang said. "There are a

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

that

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

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

of training and practice to

master at hand-to-hand

flow to it,

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

was like the fighter was a slippery eel that suddenly transformed

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

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

was the safe

if one messed up or lost the clash,