Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang didn't know how long he remained here, and he didn't care.

The stillness of the water around him soothed his mind, and he felt like being here was the right thing to do. He didn't know why, but that was what he felt.

After an unknown amount of time, Shang opened his right eye again.

He felt like he knew the lake better now.

'I should continue,' he thought.

Then, Shang continued descending.

Why was he descending?

There was a reason for it.

After another two minutes, Shang felt something other than water touch him.

He extended his hands and felt the sand.

'Finally,' he thought.

'I'm probably over 1.5 kilometers deep in the lake, but I only feel sand now.'

Shang was sure that the lake had to have a deepest point, and he was also sure that the deepest part would not be that close to the border of the Zone.

The deepest part of the lake would be the most dangerous part, and Shang didn't want to enter that part.

However, Shang also didn't want to leave the Tide Serpent Zone. The Tide Serpent apparently didn't really care about Shang, while other Zone Beasts might care a lot about him, which would be bad.

If Shang decided to dig into the earth right near the edge, the Plague Rat might decide that Shang was inside its Zone again.

Because of that, Shang had swum downward. Right now, he was about 50 meters away from the border, which meant that if he were to dig into the wall now, he would definitely still be inside the Tide Serpent Zone.

Shang's hands felt the sand, and he noticed that it was a steep wall instead of a floor.

like a funnel,' Shang thought, 'an

funnel keeps going at this angle, the deepest point of the lake might be tens of kilometers

funnel shape would keep going indefinitely until the walls

still hadn't seen another beast, but he felt

had reached the sand wall, he extended his arms and buried them in

continued swimming into the

could swim into the sandy wall like it was water. It

himself in

purpose in coming here was to find a

digging several meters into

all around him. In a

kill a Soldier Stage

a while, Shang simply laid motionlessly buried in

better than the water, and

slight movement come from the lake,

anyone digging in the sand,

those beasts definitely weren't interested in being surrounded by sand, which exhibited Earth

Zone, which meant that there were

made this place

Earth Affinity beasts would be interested in coming here, and there were

Serpent Zone symbolized the greatest danger. No human would willingly come here. After all, an unknown depth filled with terrifying sea creatures

would willingly descend that

the greatest danger lay the

for anything that wasn't a sea

hours of not feeling any kind of significant movement, Shang decided that this place was safe enough,

his clothes and sword with him. In this lake, clothes were not really useful, and they were

in the Tide

Shang saw the black armor, he thought that it looked

his fight with Vice-Commander Wilbury were

cape

nothing. The material might still be able to turn

wrapping covering his left eye socket, which meant that his look had returned to his