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.

thought,

the funnel keeps going at this angle, the deepest point of the lake might be tens of kilometers deep. Maybe

would keep going indefinitely until the walls met, but

seen another beast, but he felt like he

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

swimming into

he could swim into the sandy wall like

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

purpose in coming here was to find a

into

him. In a sense, Shang was buried

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

laid motionlessly buried in the

than the water, and he was using it to

from the lake, but it

importantly, Shang didn't feel anyone digging in the

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

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

this place perfect

interested in coming here, and there were

come here. After all, an unknown depth filled with terrifying sea creatures would be below them.

descend that far into the Tide Serpent

the greatest danger lay the

for anything that wasn't a sea

Shang decided

to take his clothes and sword with him. In this lake, clothes were not really useful, and

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

thought that it

battle from his fight with Vice-Commander

Magic Runes were destroyed, and the cape could

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

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