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

this spot. If not even the King could get through

you think the ore is?" Shang

only know that it is far above my current

absorb it?" Shang

silent for

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

part, release it in an attack,

should be possible,"

create

"Maybe," Sword answered.

"Want to try?"

"Yes."

nodded, but he

thinking about what consequences this

or something

happen if I made

I contact Duke Whirlwind

a while, Shang weighed his

at the

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

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

thought as he looked at the ceiling. 'If there is an Abomination in there,

powerful than the Storm Eagle, the more powerful humans I have never met would kill

nervous as

I'm in danger. As far as I have seen from meeting

this point, Shang thought about the

am potentially endangering everyone I

same time, there might be something in

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

He would open it without a second

against opening it, but there was also a

Skythunder? He would

about the

that scene, a teenager with red hair dug at

Shang took a

I think nearly everyone in my stead would decide to open

'High risk, high reward.'

doesn't endanger everyone above

it,"

took out Sword and

Sword, and Shang immediately let

powerful

ground, and Shang looked at his

right hand

lost it forever, but his

like the backlash

stood up. "Seems like I have to do this

"It's fine," Shang answered.

that, Sword fell to the ground again,

then, it touched

CRRRRRRR!

out into violent fire again, and everything around it turned into nothingness. Luckily, it managed

to dig