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

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

indefinitely until the walls met, but he didn't think that

seen another beast, but he felt like he had come across some on his

Shang had reached the sand wall, he extended his arms and buried them in

swimming into

he could swim into the sandy wall like it was water. It basically made no

opening while burying himself in the sand, not that the sand would

coming here was to find a

meters into the sandy wall, Shang

was all around him. In a sense, Shang

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

simply laid motionlessly buried in the sand, feeling the

the water, and he was using it to scout if

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

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

Affinities were living inside the Tide Serpent Zone, and those beasts definitely weren't interested in

which meant that there were only very few Earth Affinity

this place perfect for

in coming here, and there were no

willingly come here. After all, an unknown depth filled

would willingly descend that far into

greatest danger lay the safest

anything that wasn't a

Shang decided that this place was safe enough, and

this lake,

on his nearly destroyed black armor. His real body in the Tide Serpent Zone was naked now, but

armor, he thought that it looked even more damaged than he

battle from his fight

Magic Runes were destroyed, and the cape could

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

his left eye