Sword God in a World of Magic

About 20 minutes later, Shang reached the tunnel and entered it.

As he walked further, he noticed something. 'My Darkness Vision stops at a certain point, but this is somehow different. Usually, I can feel the Darkness Mana stop at the walls and remain near them, but this time, it feels like the Darkness Mana is being swallowed by something.'

'It's almost like it simply stops existing at some point. It's like being on a boat and looking at a waterfall. The river simply seems to vanish at that point.'

Some seconds later, Shang noticed that the tunnel was getting wider, contradicting the map. The map showed a natural dead-end, but instead of becoming narrower, the tunnel widened.

Eventually, Shang could see the end of the tunnel.

The tunnel had widened to a width and height of over a hundred meters, but everything stopped at the same point.

Shang could see in the dark, but he felt like he couldn't see the thing at the end of the tunnel.

However, just as expected, the feeling Shang was feeling was becoming more intense.

Eventually, Shang stopped just a meter away from the end of the tunnel.

In front of him, he could only see black.

Shang extended his hand.

And he felt a wall.

The wall was cold to the touch, but it wasn't freezing.

'Strange. This wall is so black that I can't even see it,' Shang thought as he rubbed his hand on the wall.

"That's the ore," Sword said.

Shang looked at Sword with furrowed brows. "What is?"

"The wall," Sword said.

Shang's eyes widened in shock, and he looked at the wall. "You're saying that this gigantic wall is all made up of Entropy Ore?!" he asked.

"Correct," Sword answered.

Shang could barely wrap his mind around this fact.

So, the two-kilometer wide and however-many-kilometer high circle was entirely made up of Entropy Ore?!

How much ore was that?!

At that point, Shang noticed something.

There was a tiny cut in the immaculately flat and smooth wall.

Shang's hand went over, and he could barely feel the cut. Without his Darkness Vision, he would have never found it.

'I guess this is where they tried to break through the wall,' Shang thought.

'Sadly, they failed.'

Shang looked at the wall for a while longer. 'But how could they? If a team of True Mages failed to get through there, it means that this ore is exceptionally hard and, therefore, quite valuable. Instead of just giving up, they would surely call the Duke, right?'

'And the same thing would be true for the Duke, which means that eventually…'

Shang looked closer at the cut.

this cut left behind by King Skythunder or one

not even the King could

you think the ore

don't know," Sword answered. "I only know that it is far above my

absorb it?" Shang

silent for a couple

maybe I can absorb it

part, release

should be possible,"

you can create a hole," Shang

"Maybe," Sword answered.

"Want to try?"

"Yes."

but he didn't immediately

what consequences this action could

an Abomination or something similar beyond

happen if I

contact Duke

a while, Shang

looked at the wall and

behind it,' Shang thought. 'That means they also wouldn't

Abomination behind it,

there is an Abomination in there, the Storm Eagle would kill

more powerful than the Storm Eagle, the more powerful

nervous as he looked

in danger. As far as I have seen from meeting that one Abomination,

Shang thought about the path he wanted to go

opening a hole, I am

same time, there might be something in there that could help me with my

and he thought about

Dean? He would open

but there was also a possibility that

Skythunder? He would

the God?'

in Shang's head. In that scene, a teenager with red hair dug at the wall

took a

think nearly everyone in my

'High risk, high reward.'

just hope this doesn't

it,"

and held it to

second later, violent black flames appeared around Sword, and Shang

been so powerful that they

the ground, and Shang

right hand had completely

Shang feared that he had lost it forever, but his warrior's body quickly

isn't like the

Sword answered as it stood up. "Seems like

"It's fine," Shang answered.

the ground again, and its tip pointed to

it touched the

CRRRRRRR!

out into violent fire again, and everything around it turned into nothingness. Luckily, it managed to hold itself to the

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