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 incredibly steep one, at

this angle, the deepest point of the lake might

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

but he felt

had reached the sand wall, he extended his arms and buried

he continued swimming into the

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

while burying himself in the sand, not that the sand would allow

was to find a safe

meters into the sandy wall,

all around him. In a sense,

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

a while, Shang simply laid motionlessly buried in the

sand allowed Shang to feel any vibrations much better than the water, and he was

movement come from the

didn't feel anyone digging in the

living inside the Tide Serpent Zone, and those

just beside the Plague Rat Zone, which meant that there were only very few Earth Affinity beasts living

place

in coming here, and there were no

unknown depth filled with terrifying sea creatures would be below them. Even more, there

that far into

the greatest danger lay

for anything that

decided that this

this lake, clothes were not really useful, and they were

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 inner world would need

that it looked even more damaged than he

his fight with Vice-Commander Wilbury were still

the cape could barely

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

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