Sword God in a World of Magic

The Sweeper and Shang went towards the first barrier.

The Sweeper took out a complex medal that looked a bit like the Barrier Disruptors Shang had used before but far better and more advanced.

She put the medal on the barrier and spoke several complex chants.

After a couple of seconds, a hole appeared in the barrier.

And then, she retrieved the advanced Barrier Disruptor.

Yet, the hole stayed open!

This surprised Shang quite a bit.

Usually, Barrier Disruptors had to stay on the barrier because they were responsible for diverting the flow of Mana. By taking them away, the Mana would flow in the way it was supposed to again, closing the hole.

If one wanted to create a permanent hole in the barrier, one would need to completely reprogram the Magic Circle running the barrier, and there were innumerable safeguards against that.

Even though the barrier seemed to be permanently reprogrammed, Shang refused to believe that it actually was.

This had to be something else.

Shang's mind also focused on the Peak High Mage on the ground, standing guard.

There was barely a kilometer between the Peak High Mage and the barrier. They would have felt the slight change of Mana in the atmosphere.

Yet, they didn't.

Everything the Sweeper had been doing just now was far beyond Shang's ability.

"Hurry," the Sweeper transmitted after stepping through the barrier. "It only stays open for five seconds."

Like a white phantom, Shang's body flew forward and passed through the hole in less than a second.

And a couple of seconds later, the barrier shut again.

None of the surveillance Magic Circles were triggered.

Shang's Spirit Sense investigated the small medal the Sweeper had used to get through the barrier.

normal Barrier Disruptors use to disrupt the barriers is

Sweeper tossed the Remote

Remote Disruptor in his

many tiny Magic Circles in there that

only had the mind of an Initial High Mage, and he assumed that this

several times, and he could see how some parts of them worked, but this Remote Disruptor was

second, Shang tossed the Remote Disruptor

tuned towards the barrier during their creation, a Remote Disruptor can adapt to any kind of barrier or Magic Circle," the Sweeper explained. "Additionally, they don't need specialized Mana, and I can just use my own Mana to

complex and expensive, but having one will

nodded, showing that he

Sweeper put the Remote Disruptor away again and turned towards the

Shang and the Sweeper now stood in front of a mostly normal-looking

any different from all the forest around

just something

fingers on it, but this area just

like this place wasn't

what was so strange about this area, he wouldn't have known why all of this

with warped time, space, and gravity would

a long time, but we will eventually reach the end," the Sweeper explained. "Due to the immense time acceleration, just entering a

need to go forward.

Shang nodded.

dangerous area, but his body wasn't thin

Spirit Sense that went into the

like it went

go in first," the Sweeper

the Sweeper's body enter the space

come out the other end in

like

Shang only remained silent.

Suddenly, something happened.

The Sweeper casually stretched.

moment later, Shang felt the Sweeper's Spirit Sense make a careless sweep

put

And removed her cloak!

black hair came out from beneath the cloak, and a youthful face

like a young woman in her early