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.

like a funnel,' Shang thought, 'an incredibly steep

at this angle, the deepest point of the

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

hadn't seen another beast, but he felt

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

continued swimming

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

an opening while burying himself in the sand, not

purpose in coming here was to find a safe

into the sandy wall, Shang

all around him. In a sense, Shang

would kill a Soldier Stage warrior, but it

while, Shang simply laid motionlessly

any vibrations much better than the water, and

felt some slight movement come from the lake, but

digging in the sand,

Serpent Zone, and those beasts definitely weren't interested in being surrounded

the Plague Rat Zone, which meant that there were only very few

this place perfect for

beasts would be interested in coming here,

human would willingly come here. After all, an unknown depth filled with terrifying sea creatures would be below

descend that far into the

danger lay the safest

perfect sanctuary for anything that

Shang decided that this place was safe enough, and

and sword with him. In this

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

armor, he thought that it looked even more damaged than

of battle from his fight with

the cape could barely be called loose, black

be able to turn a fatal attack

his left eye socket, which meant that