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

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

crackling under

Magic Runes appeared

of Space

didn't move and remained in the middle

has to cost a lot

deteriorate into whoever could build the better defensive Magic Circle and offensive

use their own Mana to keep

an entire second passed, which was an insanely long

receive a single injury

they would be forced to use Mana Step.

the attack wasn't

move. After all, the easiest counter was to just

be attacked by another attack that the opponent had readied,

strong enough that staying inside would be a bad idea but not so strong that it would consume too

WHOOOM!

a terrifying beam of concentrated space was shooting

fired at Shang from just a couple of meters away, making

time

beam of powerful gravity shot at him from barely a kilometer

as that happened, Shang

instant, the entire Magic Circle around Shang

it had never

hadn't used his

the power

Void Break and had strengthened his body, but

Shang had absorbed all the Mana in the surrounding kilometers, including the Water Mana and the irregular Space and

ten kilometers had turned into a black

Mana

It was just nothingness.

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

moved a couple

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

agonizingly slowly transforming from a serious one to a shocked

Shang was moving in

had reached a bit more than the power of a

Mid Ancestral Beast, and it would be

Mana inside

and below

his feet to the solidified

And then, he jumped.

BOOOOOOM!

his opponent

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

arm swung the simple metallic rod that was his Subsis at

blade made of space and

as quickly

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