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.

funnel,' Shang thought, 'an incredibly

this angle, the deepest point of the lake might

the funnel shape would keep going indefinitely until the walls

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

the sand wall, he extended his arms and

swimming into

sandy wall like it was water.

himself in the sand, not that

here was to find a

into the sandy wall,

was all around him. In a

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

simply laid motionlessly buried in the sand, feeling the

Shang to feel any vibrations much better than the water, and he was using it to scout if something living

slight movement come from the lake, but it wasn't

importantly, Shang didn't feel anyone digging in

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

meant that there were only very

this place

in coming here, and there were

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

that far into the

the greatest danger lay the safest

anything that wasn't a sea

feeling any kind of significant movement, Shang decided that

this lake, clothes were not really useful, and they were

in the Tide Serpent Zone was naked now, but the

he thought that it looked even more

his fight

destroyed, and the cape could barely be called

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

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