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.

Barrier Disruptors use to disrupt the barriers is shot into the barrier with a Remote

moment later, the Sweeper tossed the Remote Disruptor over to Shang, who

in his hands, and his Spirit Sense

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

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

looked at the normal Barrier Disruptors several times, and he could see how some parts of them worked,

a second, Shang tossed

to be tuned towards the barrier during their creation, a Remote Disruptor can adapt to any kind of barrier or Magic Circle," the Sweeper

tradeoff is that they are very complex and expensive, but having

nodded, showing that

away again and

passing by the barrier, Shang and the Sweeper now stood in front of

seem any different

something weird

quite put his fingers on it, but this area just

place wasn't supposed to be

area,

a place with warped time, space, and gravity would feel

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

to go forward. Nothing

Shang nodded.

pass around the dangerous area, but his body wasn't thin enough to do

Spirit Sense that went into

felt like it

first," the

enter the space

come out the other end in

like

Shang only remained silent.

Suddenly, something happened.

The Sweeper casually stretched.

later, Shang felt the Sweeper's Spirit Sense

relaxed and put her hand to

And removed her cloak!

black hair came out from beneath the cloak, and

Sweeper looked like a young woman in her early twenties, and