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, at

of the lake might be tens of kilometers deep.

sure if the funnel shape would keep going indefinitely until the walls met, but he didn't think that it was

he felt like he had come across some

sand wall, he extended

swimming

enough that he could swim into the sandy wall like it was water. It

while burying himself in the

purpose in coming here was to find a

meters into the sandy wall,

him. In a sense,

pressure here, especially with the sand surrounding him, would kill

laid motionlessly buried in the sand,

any vibrations much better than the water, and he was

from the lake, but

didn't feel anyone digging

those beasts definitely weren't interested in being surrounded by sand, which exhibited

Rat Zone, which meant that there were only very few Earth Affinity

place perfect for

interested in coming here, and there were no Earth

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

would willingly descend that far into the Tide

the greatest danger

for anything that

movement, Shang decided that this place

take his clothes and sword with him. In this lake, clothes were not really useful, and they

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

saw the black armor, he thought that it

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

Magic Runes were destroyed, and the cape

able to turn a fatal attack into one that only heavily injured

off the black wrapping covering his left eye socket, which meant that his look had returned to