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.

thought, 'an incredibly steep one,

of

would keep going indefinitely until the walls met, but

he felt like he

extended his arms and buried them in

he continued swimming into

swim into the sandy

himself in

here was to find a

meters into the

around him. In a sense,

would kill a Soldier

Shang simply laid motionlessly buried in the sand,

allowed Shang to feel any vibrations much better than the water,

movement come from the lake, but it wasn't

Shang didn't feel anyone digging in the sand, which he had

with Water Affinities were living inside the Tide Serpent Zone, and those beasts definitely weren't interested in being surrounded by sand, which

was just beside the Plague Rat Zone, which meant that there were only very few Earth

place

Earth Affinity beasts would be interested in coming here,

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. Even more, there was no place to hide in the middle of

descend that

in the greatest danger lay the safest

perfect sanctuary for anything

decided that this place was safe enough, and

this lake, clothes were not really useful, and they

body in the Tide Serpent Zone was naked now, but the body

the black armor, he thought that it looked even more damaged than he had

of battle from his fight with Vice-Commander Wilbury were still

Magic Runes were destroyed, and the cape could barely be called

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

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