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!

shocked by the sheer power of the oppressive space in his

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

Mana Pathways crackling under pressure, but they managed to

numerous Magic

didn't know anything about Magic Runes, but he could feel that Concepts of Space and Gravity were

the middle of the oppressive space

lot of Mana,' Shang thought

battles would deteriorate into whoever could build the better

whoever attacked Shang needed to use their own Mana to keep this Magic

an entire second passed, which was an insanely long time for a fight

single injury and didn't use up

be forced to use Mana Step. After all, every bit of damage

attack wasn't strong enough to get through, Shang would literally take

wasn't meant to kill him but to make him move. After all, the easiest counter was to just rush out of the Magic

attack that the opponent had readied, which would

bad idea but not so strong that it would consume

WHOOOM!

an instant, Shang noticed that a terrifying beam of concentrated space

have probably been fired at Shang from just a couple of meters away, making it impossible

moment, time

and gravity as a beam of powerful

soon as that happened,

instant, the entire

it

Shang hadn't used

was the power

Break and had strengthened his body, but the actual

the surrounding kilometers, including the Water Mana and

kilometers had turned into a black

Mana

It was just nothingness.

absorbed Mana was currently pressed into Shang's Mana Pathways, putting immense strain on

beam had barely moved a couple of meters

the direction of his opponent, who had been unveiled since all the Mana around them had also been absorbed, canceling their

this moment, the opponent's face was agonizingly slowly transforming

Shang was

body had reached a bit

now, Shang could punch a Mid Ancestral Beast,

inside

void behind and below Shang seemed to

put his feet to

And then, he jumped.

BOOOOOOM!

his

arrived at the beam, which had barely moved 150 meters up to

simple metallic rod that was his

beam vanished, and a translucent blade made of space and gravity appeared around the

vanished just as quickly as it

through Shang's Mana Pathways, which had already been emptied