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 incredibly steep one, at

this angle, the deepest point of

until the walls met, but he

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

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

swimming into the

was strong enough that he could swim into the sandy wall

while burying himself in the sand, not that the

in coming here was

meters into the sandy

him. In

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

Shang simply laid motionlessly buried in

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

come from

digging in the sand, which he

beasts with Water Affinities were living inside the Tide Serpent Zone, and those beasts definitely weren't

beside the Plague Rat Zone, which meant that there were

this place

interested in coming here, and there were no Earth

depth filled with terrifying sea creatures would be below them. Even

willingly descend that

greatest danger lay the

for anything that

movement, Shang decided that this place was safe enough,

with him. In this lake,

body in the Tide Serpent Zone was naked now, but the body inside his inner world would need

armor, he thought that it

scars of battle from his fight with Vice-Commander Wilbury were

destroyed, and the cape could barely

might still be able to turn a fatal attack into one that only heavily injured

wrapping covering his left eye socket, which meant that his look