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 steep one,

the funnel keeps going at this angle, the deepest point of the lake might

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

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

reached the sand wall, he extended

he continued swimming into the

the sandy wall like

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

here was

meters into the

was all around him. In a sense, Shang was

sand surrounding him, would kill a Soldier Stage warrior,

while, Shang simply laid motionlessly buried in

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

movement come from the lake,

feel anyone digging in

Serpent Zone, and those

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

this place perfect

in coming here, and there were no Earth Affinity beasts

an unknown depth filled with terrifying sea creatures would be below them.

descend that far into the

in the greatest danger lay the safest

sanctuary for anything that wasn't a

significant movement, Shang decided that this place was safe enough, and

sword with him. In this lake, clothes were not really

his inner world, Shang put on his nearly destroyed black armor. His real body in the Tide Serpent

Shang saw the black armor, he thought that it

from his fight with Vice-Commander Wilbury were still

cape could barely be called loose,

The material might still be able to turn a fatal attack into one that only

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