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.

said after noticing Shang's curiosity. "The Mana the normal Barrier Disruptors use to disrupt the barriers is shot into the barrier with

the Remote Disruptor over to Shang, who caught

the Remote Disruptor in his hands,

Magic Circles in there that Shang didn't even try to understand

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

times, and he could see how some parts of them worked, but

a second, Shang tossed

need to be 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

very complex and expensive, but having one

showing

the Remote Disruptor away again and

Sweeper now stood in

seem any

there was just something weird

his fingers on it,

wasn't supposed to be like

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

with warped time, space, and gravity

will eventually reach the end," the Sweeper explained. "Due to the immense time acceleration, just entering a millisecond later will

you just need to go forward.

Shang nodded.

around the dangerous area, but his body wasn't thin

Sense that

it

first," the

enter the space

out the other end

was like

Shang only remained silent.

Suddenly, something happened.

The Sweeper casually stretched.

Spirit Sense make a careless sweep of the

she relaxed and put her hand

And removed her cloak!

out from beneath the

looked like a young woman in her early twenties, and she had this carefree