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,

the deepest point of the lake

would keep going indefinitely until the walls met, but he didn't think that

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

reached the sand wall, he extended his arms and buried them in

swimming into the

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

an opening while burying himself in

coming here was to find a

several meters into

was 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

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

come from the lake,

anyone digging in the sand, which he

Affinities were living inside the Tide Serpent Zone, and those beasts definitely weren't interested in being surrounded

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

made this place perfect for

Earth Affinity beasts would be interested in coming here, and there were

greatest danger. No human would willingly come here. After all, an unknown depth filled with terrifying sea creatures would be below

human would willingly descend that far into the Tide

in the greatest danger lay the

sanctuary for anything that wasn't a sea

feeling any kind of significant movement, Shang decided that this

him. In this lake, clothes were not really

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

Shang saw the black armor, he thought that

from his fight with

Runes were destroyed, and the cape could barely be called loose,

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

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