Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang took a deep breath when he heard Duke Whirlwind's voice.

If beasts got the chance to take a good look at him, they would attack. Dealing with this issue wasn't hard under normal circumstances, but if a Zone Beast decided that it wanted to kill Shang…

Only death would wait for him.

"I will be careful," Shang said.

Duke Whirlwind nodded and led everyone into the Thunder Horse Zone.

The Thunder Horse Zone was just a huge desert with plenty of sand dunes. Usually, one wouldn't associate a desert with lightning, but Shang quickly saw why this Zone was a desert.

BANG! BANG!

From the clear and bright sky, one lightning bolt after the other hit the ground, throwing small bits of sand everywhere.

There were very few clouds present, and the lightning seemingly came out of thin air. Sometimes, the lightning didn't even come from the sky but just directly appeared in the air before striking the ground.

Surprisingly, the bits of sand didn't seem to mind the lightning. Sure, they were flung around, but they didn't get destroyed or burned.

In comparison to all the other Zones, Shang barely saw any beasts in this one.

"Why are there no beasts?" Shang asked.

"This is one of the rare Zones where nearly all the fighting is done either very high in the sky or below the ground inside different caves and tunnels," Duke Whirlwind explained with a neutral voice. Obviously, after realizing that they would soon meet the Thunder Horse, Duke Whirlwind's good mood had vanished.

Shang looked at the sky, at the few clouds he could see.

The biggest clouds were only two kilometers wide, which really wasn't that big for a cloud, and there were a couple of clouds that were only a hundred meters across. There were even very small clouds, only about ten meters across.

The most numerous clouds were the smaller ones, and there were only three gigantic clouds.

'Duke Whirlwind said that most beasts are fighting in the sky and below the ground. Does that mean…?'

"Are the clouds beasts?" Shang asked.

a couple of hundred meters across are True Path Stage beasts, and the smallest ones

took a deep

three gigantic clouds were beasts of the

had never seen one

BANG!

gaze was pulled to a spot in the sky where two small clouds had just met. As soon as they had met, the sound of thunder reverberated throughout the desert,

Commander Stage

couple of seconds later, Shang saw a body fall

was a silver hawk, heavy injuries and burns visible all over

hawk had

Shang saw the

with a long, jagged horn and four relatively small legs

widely opened eyes as the thing grabbed the corpse

a Chinese dragon?!'

fantasy movies and games on Earth,

is that beast?" Shang asked

Lightning Serpent," Duke

Or is the name

different from other beasts," Shang said. He actually didn't think that it was different, but he wanted to know if there was something

comparison to almost every other

"They don't?" Shang asked.

but most of their power comes from

you could call

cloud where the Desert Lightning Serpent

similar to Spells?' Shang thought. 'That's quite interesting. Sure enough,

is it flying

the Desert Lightning Serpent can manipulate magnetism just enough to let it fly. That ability consumes a lot of Mana, but with enough Lightning Mana

Shang only nodded.

Shang no longer asked

with thinking about the Thunder

just five minutes later, Shang saw several tall buildings in

clay, but surprisingly, they were made of yellow stone

the reason for its name was just a kilometer