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

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

the funnel shape would keep going indefinitely until the

now, Shang still hadn't seen another beast, but he felt like

the sand wall, he extended his arms and buried them

continued swimming into the

into the sandy wall like it was water.

opening while burying himself in the

here was to

several meters into the sandy wall, Shang

all around him. In a sense, Shang was buried

surrounding him, would kill a Soldier Stage

a while, Shang simply laid motionlessly buried in the sand, feeling

sand allowed Shang to feel any vibrations much better than the water, and he was using it to scout if something living

from

feel anyone digging in the sand, which he had

living inside the Tide Serpent Zone, and those beasts definitely

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

made this place perfect

here, and there were no Earth

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

willingly descend that far into the Tide Serpent

the greatest danger lay the safest

sanctuary for anything that wasn't a

not feeling any kind of significant movement, Shang decided that this place was safe enough, and he entered his inner

take his clothes and sword with him. In this lake,

in the Tide Serpent Zone was naked now,

black armor, he thought that it looked even

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

cape could barely be called loose,

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

never taken off the black wrapping covering his left eye socket, which meant that