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!

Shang, and Shang was shocked by the sheer power of

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

crackling under pressure, but they managed

later, numerous Magic Runes

Space and Gravity were currently trying

and remained in the middle of the oppressive

a lot

Crystals as 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 Magic Circle

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

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

a single injury and didn't use up any

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

If the power of the attack wasn't strong enough to get

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,

bad idea but not so strong that it

WHOOOM!

a terrifying beam of concentrated space was shooting toward him from a

left the Magic Circle, the beam would have probably been fired at Shang from just a couple of

moment, time seemingly stood

surrounded by oppressive space and gravity as a beam of powerful gravity shot at him from barely a

soon as that happened, Shang became

the entire Magic Circle around Shang

was like it had never

Shang hadn't used his

was the power of

had strengthened his

surrounding kilometers, including the Water

had turned into

was no Mana in

It was just nothingness.

was currently pressed into

moved a couple

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

the opponent's face was agonizingly slowly transforming from a

was like everything but Shang was moving in slow

this Mana inside Shang, his body had reached

Mid Ancestral Beast,

foreign Mana inside

and below Shang seemed

feet

And then, he jumped.

BOOOOOOM!

his opponent

instant, he arrived at the beam, which

the simple metallic rod that was

a translucent blade made of space and gravity appeared around the

as quickly

and Gravity Mana moved through Shang's Mana Pathways, which had already