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.

cut left behind by King Skythunder or one of

not even the King could

think the ore is?"

Sword answered. "I only know

you absorb it?"

for a couple

can't absorb it permanently, but maybe I can absorb it temporarily and

a small part, release it

should be possible," Sword

can create

"Maybe," Sword answered.

"Want to try?"

"Yes."

but he didn't immediately

what consequences this

or something similar

would happen if

Duke

Shang weighed

looked at the wall and

they also wouldn't know if it's a good idea to dig through

Abomination behind it,

thought as he looked at the ceiling. 'If there is an Abomination in there, the Storm Eagle would kill it,

if the Abomination is more powerful than the Storm Eagle, the more powerful

as he looked

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

this point, Shang thought about the path he

am

be something in there that could help

should do, and he thought about

Dean? He would open it without a

it, but there was also a possibility that he might open

He would definitely open

the God?' Shang

moment, a scene appeared in Shang's head. In that scene, a teenager with red hair dug at the wall with a mad grin with his

took a deep

path is correct, I think nearly everyone in my stead would

'High risk, high reward.'

this doesn't endanger

it," Shang

out Sword and

flames appeared around Sword, and Shang immediately let

had been so powerful that they even injured

to the ground, and Shang looked at his

hand had

he had lost

isn't like the backlash of

it stood up. "Seems like I have

"It's fine," Shang answered.

again,

it

CRRRRRRR!

fire again, and everything around it turned into nothingness. Luckily, it managed to hold

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