Sword God in a World of Magic

"This is the middle of the place we call Deep Crevices," the Bolt explained. "The Wilderness Hunt will be held within a radius of 10,000 kilometers. Leaving the area voluntarily results in death."

"Naturally, you will be able to tell where the wilderness ends based on a very noticeable Magic Circle, which you will see and pass through on your way down."

"As soon as you pass through the Magic Circle later, you are not allowed to pass through it until a Bolt tells you so."

"Well then," the Bolt said with a smile, "I think that should be everything."

"You can descend now."

BANG!

Half of the Clouds immediately shot into the water at their full speeds, even using Mana Step.

The other half slowly started to float and made their way downward.

Shang was amongst the half that traveled slowly.

Usually, one could tell someone's confidence in their power based on how they acted in this situation, but that wasn't very easy here. After all, the Clouds knew how certain people would act and could emulate that behavior.

Shang slowly floated into the water, although his kind of slow wasn't exactly an average human's kind of slow. He still moved two kilometers per second.

As Shang continued going downward, he was reminded of the time he had run away from the Grandmountain Kingdom. Back then, he had also swum to the bottom of a huge lake.

However, the Shang from back then had just reached the Commander Stage, and he hadn't been able to sense anything down there since it had been just too dark.

But this time, Shang had a Spirit Sense, even if it was only restricted to a radius of ten kilometers for now.

The Clouds split up the further they descended. As soon as they passed through the barrier, they would be allowed to attack each other, and most of them didn't want to be attacked.

In a matter of seconds, Shang was alone again.

Right now, there was only water in all directions.

Shang had no idea how deep the Eternal Ocean actually was, but it was probably very deep.

After nearly a full minute, Shang could see the Magic Circle the Bolt had been talking about.

There was a purple barrier in front of Shang, impossible to miss.

This meant that the Wilderness Hunt would start from here.

'The wilderness is supposed to have a radius of 10,000 kilometers. I wonder if that also extends upward, which would mean that the bottom of the Eternal Ocean is over 10,000 kilometers away.'

Shang had expected the Eternal Ocean to be deep, but he hadn't expected it to be this deep.

However, Shang didn't stop descending, and in nearly an instant, he passed through the actual barrier.

BANG!

Suddenly, Shang's surroundings seemed to crack apart!

The space in the surroundings had received cracks!

on attacking Shang, and Shang was shocked by the sheer power of the oppressive space

space in Shang's surroundings was pulled to him as it cracked apart, putting immense pressure on

Pathways crackling under pressure, but

instant later, numerous Magic Runes

about Magic Runes, but he could feel that Concepts of Space and Gravity were currently trying to press him into a tiny cube of

and remained in the middle of the oppressive

has to cost a lot

power sources was forbidden in any fights between Clouds. Otherwise, the battles would deteriorate into whoever could build the better defensive Magic Circle and offensive

attacked Shang needed to use

entire second passed, which was an insanely

didn't receive a single injury and

use Mana Step. After all, every bit

like flat damage reduction. If the power of the attack wasn't strong enough to get through, Shang would

kill him but to make him move. After all, the easiest counter was to

another attack that the opponent had readied, which would be their

was strong enough that staying inside would be a bad idea but not so strong

WHOOOM!

that a terrifying beam of concentrated space was shooting toward him from a hidden location outside

left the Magic Circle, the beam would have probably been fired at Shang from just a couple of meters away, making it impossible to

time seemingly stood

beam of powerful gravity shot at him from

that

instant, the entire Magic Circle around

like it had

used his Domain of

was the power of

had strengthened his body, but the actual ability of Void Break still

surrounding kilometers, including the Water Mana

kilometers had turned into

no Mana in this

It was just nothingness.

was currently pressed into Shang's Mana Pathways,

barely moved a couple of meters in that

unveiled since all the Mana around

this moment, the opponent's face was agonizingly slowly transforming from a serious one

everything but Shang was moving

reached a bit more than the power of a Mid

Ancestral Beast, and it would be thrown

Mana inside Shang moved to his

behind and below

feet to

And then, he jumped.

BOOOOOOM!

toward his

an instant, he arrived at the beam, which had barely moved 150 meters up

the simple metallic rod that was his Subsis

beam vanished, and a translucent blade made

blade vanished just as quickly as

Mana moved through Shang's Mana Pathways, which had already been emptied of foreign Mana by using it to