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

angle, the deepest point of

would keep going indefinitely until the walls

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

had reached the sand wall, he extended his

he continued swimming into the

swim into the sandy wall like it was

himself in the sand, not that the sand

here was to find a safe

several meters into the sandy wall,

all around him. In a sense, Shang was

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

simply laid motionlessly buried in the sand,

water, and

felt some slight movement come from the lake, but

importantly, Shang didn't feel anyone digging

Serpent Zone, and those beasts definitely weren't interested

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

this place perfect for

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

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

would willingly descend that far into

danger lay the safest

perfect sanctuary for anything that wasn't a sea

any kind of significant movement, Shang decided that this place

clothes and sword with him. In this lake,

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

thought that it looked

scars of battle from his fight

Runes were destroyed, and the cape could barely be

still be able to turn a fatal attack into one that

the black wrapping covering his left eye socket, which meant that his look had returned to his