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.

Shang thought, 'an incredibly

the funnel keeps going at this angle, the deepest point of

shape would keep going indefinitely until

seen another beast, but he felt like

reached the sand wall, he extended his

he continued swimming

was strong enough that he could swim into the sandy wall like it

burying himself in the

coming here was

digging several meters into the sandy wall,

was all around him. In a sense, Shang

the sand surrounding him, would kill a Soldier Stage warrior, but it wasn't an issue to

motionlessly buried in the sand, feeling the

than the water, and he was using it to scout if something living was

some slight movement come from the lake, but it

didn't feel anyone digging in the sand,

Serpent Zone, and those beasts definitely weren't interested in being surrounded by

beside the Plague Rat Zone, which meant

made this place perfect

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

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

descend that far into

the greatest danger lay

anything that wasn't a sea

Shang decided that this place was

clothes and sword with him. In this lake, clothes were

his inner world, Shang put on his nearly destroyed black armor. His real body in the Tide Serpent Zone was naked now, but the body inside his inner world would need

that it looked

from his fight with Vice-Commander Wilbury were still

cape

better than nothing. The material might still be able to turn a fatal

never taken off the black wrapping covering his left eye socket,