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.

a funnel,' Shang thought, 'an incredibly steep one, at

deepest point of the lake might be tens of kilometers deep. Maybe even

going indefinitely until the walls met, but

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

sand wall, he extended

he continued swimming

into the sandy wall like it was water. It basically made no difference

an opening while burying himself in the sand,

coming here was to

several meters into the sandy wall,

around him. In

would kill a Soldier Stage warrior, but it

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

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

from the lake, but

importantly, Shang didn't feel anyone digging in the sand,

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

Rat Zone, which meant

this place perfect

in coming here, and

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. Even more, there was no

would willingly descend that far into

in the greatest danger lay

for anything that wasn't

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

clothes and sword with him. In this lake, clothes were not

in the Tide Serpent

he thought that it looked even

his fight with Vice-Commander Wilbury were still

the cape could barely be called loose,

able to turn

eye socket, which meant that his look had returned to his