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.

by King Skythunder or

not even the King

the

know that

you absorb it?"

for a

maybe I can absorb it temporarily and disperse

small part, release

should be

can create a hole,"

"Maybe," Sword answered.

"Want to try?"

"Yes."

but he didn't immediately start

thinking about what consequences this

or something similar beyond

if I

Duke

a while, Shang weighed

the

also wouldn't know if it's

Abomination behind it, they

at the ceiling. 'If there is an Abomination in there, the Storm

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

as he looked at the

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

the

I am potentially endangering

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

sure what he should do, and he thought about what the people

He would open it without a second

decide against opening it, but there was also

Skythunder? He would definitely open

about the God?'

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

took

nearly everyone in my stead

'High risk, high reward.'

this doesn't

do it,"

out Sword and held it to

black flames appeared around Sword, and Shang

so powerful

fell to the ground, and Shang looked

right hand had completely

had lost it forever,

like the

Sword answered as it stood up. "Seems

"It's fine," Shang answered.

again, and its tip

it

CRRRRRRR!

everything around it turned into nothingness. Luckily, it managed to hold itself to

to dig into the