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.

thought, 'an incredibly steep

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

until

still hadn't seen another beast, but he felt like he had

sand wall, he extended his arms and

continued swimming

the sandy wall

purposefully didn't leave an opening while burying himself in the sand, not that the sand

here was to find

digging several meters into the sandy wall,

around him. In a sense,

surrounding him, would kill a Soldier

a while, Shang simply laid motionlessly

vibrations much better than the water, and he was using it

come from the lake, but

Shang didn't feel anyone digging in the sand, which he had

with Water Affinities were living inside the Tide Serpent Zone, and those beasts definitely weren't interested in being surrounded by sand,

wall was just beside the Plague Rat Zone, which meant that there were only very few Earth Affinity beasts

this place perfect for

here, and there were no Earth

symbolized the greatest danger. No human would willingly come here. After all, an unknown depth filled with terrifying sea creatures would be below them. Even more, there was no place to hide in the middle

human would willingly descend that far into the Tide Serpent

danger lay the safest

for anything that

of not feeling any kind of significant movement, Shang decided that this place

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

body in the Tide Serpent Zone was naked now, but the body inside his inner

saw the black armor, he thought that it looked even more damaged

battle from his fight with

were destroyed, and the cape could barely be called loose, black

be able to

off the black wrapping covering his left eye socket, which meant that his look had returned to his old