Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang traveled through the tunnel at a slow pace. In comparison to the upper Caves, this place was far quieter since there were far fewer beasts running around.

Just like with warriors and Mages, the further one traversed on the path to power, the fewer beings on the same level one would find.

There were probably over ten times as many General Stage beasts than Commander Stage beasts. So, while the upper Caves had the occasional beast running around, the deeper Caves felt empty.

But this couldn't be avoided. In order to advance on the path to power, one was required to consume more and more resources. Every Commander Stage beast had probably killed hundreds of other beasts in their lives.

Shang didn't find any other beast for several minutes, even with the help of his Darkness Vision.

But after 30 minutes, Shang finally felt something of interest.

However, it wasn't a beast.

Shang looked towards the north with interest.

He wasn't sure what he was feeling, but this feeling felt strange.

'Am I imagining things?' Shang thought as he looked to the north. 'I can't see anything in my Darkness Vision, but I somehow feel like I should go to the north.'

For a while, Shang wasn't sure if this feeling was real or not.

'I should investigate. If I get closer and the feeling is real, it should become stronger.'

Shang walked down one of the northern paths and consulted his map again when he came to an intersection.

For a couple of minutes, Shang chose paths that led further to the north, but it wasn't that easy to navigate, even with a map.

Shang went a bit deeper into the Caves, but he didn't descend too much. After all, he didn't want to meet Mid Commander Stage beasts.

"I can feel ore," Sword suddenly said.

Sword very rarely spoke, and Shang looked at it in surprise. "What kind of ore?"

"Entropy Ore," Sword answered. "It is the same feeling as back when we were in front of the Old King's Trial, but this time, the feeling is incomparably stronger."

the feeling come from

"Yes," Sword said.

ore in the Old King's Trial. As far as I know, I can

then, Shang's eyes narrowed. 'Could it

had participated in. Back then,

had felt the Abomination in the Northern Ice

supposed to appear

were an Abomination here, the other warriors and Mages would have already found

decided to investigate. Even if there were no

to the north,

tunnel, he noticed something on the map that he hadn't

Area?' Shang

colored in a slight blue

Area, and there was a short

no beasts,' Shang

there were fewer Commander Stage beasts, but traveling 30 minutes without seeing one was

even though Shang had traveled for 30 minutes, he wasn't walking very fast, and he was walking in circles at different depths.

when they see them, but if an Abomination is far above

and the center of the Calm Area also happens to be to the north?' Shang thought with furrowed brows.

continued walking to the north in as straight

meet

a dead end and had

northeast for

the direction has

was to the east of the center of the

the feeling

The west.

one of the many

eyes and focused

a straight line through the entire Calm Zone on the map according to his

that, Shang went to the

another line according to

he traveled to the western side of

then, Shang stopped and