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 steep one,

point of the lake

would keep going indefinitely until the

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

extended his arms and buried

he continued swimming

into the sandy wall like it was water. It basically made

in the sand, not that the sand would

was to find a safe

into

him. In a

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

simply laid motionlessly buried in the sand,

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

felt some slight movement come from the lake,

digging in the sand,

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

Plague Rat Zone, which meant

this place

beasts would be interested in coming here, and there were

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

would willingly descend that

danger lay

for anything that wasn't a

decided that this place was safe enough, and he

this lake, clothes were not really useful, and they

his nearly destroyed black armor. His real body in the Tide Serpent Zone was

armor, he thought that it looked even

of battle from his fight with Vice-Commander Wilbury were

and the cape could barely be called loose, black

still better than nothing. The material might still be able to turn a fatal attack into one that

covering his left eye socket, which meant that his look had