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.

funnel,' Shang thought, 'an incredibly

point of

going indefinitely until the walls

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

sand wall, he extended

swimming into the

he could swim into the sandy wall like it

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

in coming here was to find

several meters into

was all around him. In a sense,

with the sand surrounding him, would kill

while, Shang simply laid motionlessly buried in the

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

from the lake, but

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

Affinities were living inside the Tide Serpent Zone, and those beasts definitely

Rat Zone, which meant that there were only very

this place perfect for

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

here. After all, an unknown depth filled with terrifying

descend that far into the Tide

danger

for anything that wasn't

of significant movement, Shang decided that

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

the

the black armor, he thought that it

of battle from his fight with Vice-Commander

cape could barely be called loose,

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

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