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,

going at this angle, the deepest point of the lake might be tens

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

he felt like

Shang had reached the sand wall, he extended

continued swimming

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

in

was to find a safe

digging several meters into the sandy wall, Shang

him. In a

here, especially with the sand surrounding him, would kill

a while, Shang simply laid motionlessly buried in the

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

from

feel anyone digging in the

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

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

this place perfect

beasts would be interested in coming here, and there were no Earth Affinity beasts

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

human would willingly descend that far into

the greatest danger lay the

sanctuary for anything that wasn't a

movement, Shang decided that this place was safe

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

His real body in the Tide Serpent Zone was naked now, but the body inside his inner

he thought that it looked even

of battle from his fight with Vice-Commander Wilbury

Magic Runes were destroyed, and the cape could barely be

nothing. The material might still be able to turn a

eye socket, which meant that his look had returned to