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

surroundings was pulled to him as it cracked apart,

crackling under

later, numerous Magic Runes appeared

of Space and Gravity were currently trying to press

move and remained in the middle of the oppressive

cost a lot of

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

whoever attacked Shang needed to use their own Mana to

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

receive a single injury and didn't

position, they would be forced to use Mana Step. After all, every

worked like flat damage reduction. If the power of the attack

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

Shang would probably be attacked by another attack that the opponent had readied,

a bad idea but not so strong that it would consume too much

WHOOOM!

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

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

that moment, time seemingly

as a beam of powerful gravity

as that happened, Shang became

entire Magic Circle around

like it had

hadn't used

power

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

Mana in the surrounding kilometers, including the Water Mana

kilometers had turned into a black

no Mana in

It was just nothingness.

pressed into Shang's Mana Pathways, putting immense

had barely moved a

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

was agonizingly slowly transforming from a serious one to a

was like everything but Shang was moving

of this Mana inside Shang, his body had reached a bit more

punch a Mid Ancestral Beast,

Mana inside Shang moved

below

his feet

And then, he jumped.

BOOOOOOM!

toward his

instant, he arrived at the beam, which had

left arm swung the simple metallic rod that was his

made of space and gravity

blade vanished just as quickly

which had already been emptied of foreign Mana by using it