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.

behind by King Skythunder

why nobody marked this spot. If not even the King could get through there,

think the ore is?" Shang asked

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

absorb it?" Shang

remained silent for a couple

but maybe I can absorb it temporarily and disperse

you can absorb a small part, release it in an attack, and

be possible," Sword

create a hole," Shang

"Maybe," Sword answered.

"Want to try?"

"Yes."

he didn't immediately

he was thinking about what

definitely an Abomination or something similar

if I

Duke

while, Shang weighed his

the

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

an Abomination behind it, they may

'If there is an Abomination in there, the

Abomination is more powerful than the Storm Eagle,

bit nervous as

I don't think I'm in danger. As far as I have seen from meeting that one

thought about the path he wanted to go

am potentially

might be something in there that could help me

he thought about what the people he knew would do if they were in

open it without a

might decide against opening it, but there was

would definitely open

about the

scene, a teenager with red hair dug at the wall with a

took a deep

is correct, I think nearly everyone

'High risk, high reward.'

hope this doesn't endanger everyone

do it," Shang

out Sword and

appeared around Sword, and Shang

powerful that they

to the ground, and Shang looked at

right hand

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

this isn't like the

up. "Seems like I have to

"It's fine," Shang answered.

that, Sword fell to the ground again,

then, it touched the

CRRRRRRR!

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

to dig into