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 of his

If not even the King

powerful do you think the

know that

you absorb it?" Shang

remained silent for a

absorb it permanently, but maybe I can absorb it temporarily and disperse

scratched his chin. "So, you can absorb a small part,

be possible,"

means you can create a hole,"

"Maybe," Sword answered.

"Want to try?"

"Yes."

he didn't immediately

about what consequences this action could

an Abomination or something

would happen if I made

I contact Duke Whirlwind

while, Shang weighed his

the wall and

behind it,' Shang thought. 'That means they also wouldn't know if it's a good idea to dig through this

there might be an Abomination behind it, they may be afraid of me

is

than the Storm Eagle, the

a bit nervous as

danger. As far as I have seen from meeting that

Shang thought about the path he

hole, I am potentially

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

about what the people he knew would do if they

would open it without a

might decide against opening it, but there was also a possibility that

would definitely open

the God?'

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

took a

matter which path is correct, I think nearly everyone in my

'High risk, high reward.'

this doesn't endanger everyone above

do it,"

took out Sword and held it to the

second later, violent black flames appeared around Sword, and Shang immediately let go of it, jumping

powerful that they even

ground, and Shang looked at

hand had completely

Shang feared that he had lost it forever, but

isn't like the backlash

as it stood up. "Seems like I have to do this one

"It's fine," Shang answered.

ground again, and

it touched

CRRRRRRR!

nothingness. Luckily, it managed to hold itself to the wall

to dig into the wall ever so