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.

Shang thought, 'an incredibly steep one, at

point of the lake

indefinitely until the

Shang still hadn't seen another beast, but he felt like he had come across some on

wall, he extended his arms and buried them in

swimming into

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

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

here was to find a safe

into the sandy wall, Shang

around him. In a sense, Shang was

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

laid motionlessly buried in the sand, feeling

than the water, and he was using

felt some slight movement come from the lake, but it

anyone digging in the sand, which he

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

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

this place perfect

beasts would be interested in coming here, and

the Tide Serpent Zone symbolized 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 to hide in the

human would willingly descend that far

the greatest danger

anything that wasn't

of significant movement, Shang decided that this place

and sword with him. In this lake, clothes were not really

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

thought that it looked even more damaged than he

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

were destroyed, and the cape could barely be called

nothing. The material might still be able to turn a fatal

black wrapping covering his left eye socket, which