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.

after noticing Shang's curiosity. "The Mana the normal Barrier Disruptors use to disrupt the barriers is

Remote

face turned to the Remote Disruptor in his hands, and his

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

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

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

tossed the Remote Disruptor

to any kind of barrier or

and expensive, but having

nodded, showing that he

away

barrier, Shang and the Sweeper now stood

didn't seem any

was just something weird about this

put his fingers on it, but this area

wasn't supposed to

strange about this area, he wouldn't have known

that a place with warped

long time, but we will eventually reach the end," the Sweeper explained. "Due to the immense time acceleration, just entering a millisecond later will put thousands upon thousands of kilometers between

just need to go forward.

Shang nodded.

Spirit Sense could easily pass around the dangerous area, but

for the Spirit Sense that went

felt like it went on

first," the Sweeper

enter the space in front

the other end

was like she had

Shang only remained silent.

Suddenly, something happened.

The Sweeper casually stretched.

later, Shang felt the Sweeper's Spirit Sense make

that, she relaxed and put her hand to

And removed her cloak!

came out from beneath the cloak, and a

in her early twenties, and she had this carefree look to