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,

angle, the deepest point of the

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

but he felt like he had

wall, he extended

swimming into

strong enough that he could swim into the sandy wall

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

here was to find a

digging several meters into the sandy wall,

In a sense, Shang was buried

especially with the sand surrounding him, would kill a Soldier Stage

while, Shang simply laid motionlessly

than the water, and he was using it to scout if

movement come from the lake, but it

importantly, Shang didn't feel anyone digging

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

this wall was just beside the Plague Rat Zone, which meant that there

made this place perfect

beasts would be interested in coming here, and

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

that far into the Tide Serpent

danger lay the safest

perfect sanctuary for anything that wasn't a

significant movement, Shang decided that

clothes and sword with him. In this lake, clothes

the Tide Serpent Zone was naked now, but the body

he thought that it looked even more damaged than he had

fight with Vice-Commander

cape could barely be

material might still be able to turn a fatal attack into one that only heavily injured

his left eye socket, which meant that his look had