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

going at this angle, the deepest point of the lake might be tens of kilometers deep.

if the funnel shape would keep going indefinitely until the walls met, but he didn't think that it

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

wall, he extended his arms and buried them in the

he continued swimming

into the sandy wall like it was water. It basically

burying himself in the sand, not that the sand would allow him

here was to find a

into the sandy wall, Shang

In a sense, Shang was

him, would kill a Soldier Stage warrior, but it wasn't

a while, Shang simply laid motionlessly buried in the sand,

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

come from the

feel anyone digging

inside the Tide Serpent Zone, and those beasts definitely weren't

Plague Rat Zone, which meant

place perfect for

would be interested in coming here, and there

depth filled with terrifying sea creatures would be below them. Even more, there was no place to hide in the

would willingly descend that far into the Tide Serpent

in the greatest danger

for anything that

any kind of significant movement, Shang decided that this place was safe enough, and he entered his

him. In this

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

black armor, he thought that it looked even

scars of battle from his fight with Vice-Commander Wilbury

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

still better than nothing. The material might still be able to

had never taken off the black wrapping covering his left eye socket, which meant that