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

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

if the funnel shape would keep going indefinitely until the walls met, but he didn't

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

wall, he extended his arms and buried

he continued swimming into

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

in the sand, not that the sand

was to find

several meters into the sandy wall,

In a sense, Shang was

surrounding him, would kill a Soldier Stage warrior, but it wasn't an issue to

Shang simply laid motionlessly buried

better than the water, and he was using it

come from the

Shang didn't feel anyone digging in the sand, which he

Tide Serpent Zone, and those beasts definitely weren't interested in being surrounded by sand, which

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

made this place perfect for

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

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

that far into the

the greatest danger lay

anything that wasn't

of significant movement, Shang decided that this place was safe enough, and he entered his inner

In this lake, clothes were not really useful, and

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

that

his fight with Vice-Commander

Runes were destroyed, and the cape

might still be able to turn a fatal

taken off the black wrapping covering his left eye socket, which meant that his