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.

Path Stage beasts, and the smallest ones are Commander Stage beasts. Soldier and General Stage beasts live underground until they become powerful enough to take to the

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were beasts of

never seen

BANG!

two small clouds had just met. As soon as they had met,

Stage

couple of seconds later, Shang saw a

injuries and burns visible all over its

hawk had obviously

then, Shang

horn and four

thing grabbed the corpse with its claws and retreated to

Chinese

dragons in fantasy movies and games on Earth, and they looked

that beast?" Shang asked Duke

Lightning Serpent," Duke

dragon? Or is the name simply different?'

was different, but he wanted to

"In comparison to almost every other beast, these Serpent beasts don't focus on their

"They don't?" Shang asked.

powerful than ours, but most of their power comes from their ranged attacks. They have many varied abilities that they can

could call them

cloud where the Desert

are very similar to Spells?' Shang thought. 'That's quite

flying

let it fly. That ability consumes a lot of Mana, but with enough Lightning Mana present, it won't run out. If it

Shang only nodded.

Shang no longer asked Duke

Duke was obviously preoccupied with thinking about

later, Shang saw several

expected that these buildings would be made of clay, but surprisingly, they were made of yellow stone or metal. Shang wasn't quite

Oasis, and the reason for its name was just a kilometer to its