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.

like a funnel,' Shang thought, 'an

point of the lake

going indefinitely until the walls met, but he didn't think that it was

beast, but he felt like he had

sand wall, he extended his arms and buried

he continued swimming into the

swim into the sandy wall like it was

didn't leave an opening while burying himself in the sand, not that the sand would allow him

here was to find

digging several meters into the sandy

all around him. In a sense, Shang

the sand surrounding him, would kill a Soldier Stage warrior, but it

motionlessly buried in the sand,

vibrations much better than the water, and he was using it to scout if something

from the lake, but

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

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

meant that there were only very few Earth Affinity beasts living

made this place perfect for

interested in coming here, and

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

descend that far

in the greatest danger lay the safest

perfect sanctuary for anything that wasn't

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

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

armor. His real body in the Tide Serpent Zone was naked now, but the body inside his inner world

thought that

scars of battle from his fight with Vice-Commander

destroyed, and the cape could barely

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

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