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!

attacking Shang, and Shang was shocked by the sheer power of the

was pulled to him

crackling under pressure,

numerous Magic Runes appeared

he could feel that Concepts of Space and Gravity

didn't move and remained in the middle of the oppressive space and

a lot of Mana,' Shang

would deteriorate into whoever could build the better defensive Magic

use their own Mana to keep this Magic Circle

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

injury and didn't use up any

Mage were in this position, they would be forced to use Mana Step. After all, every

Shang's defense worked like flat damage reduction. If the power of the attack wasn't strong enough to get through, Shang would literally take no damage

but to make him move. After all, the easiest counter was to just rush out of

by another attack that the opponent had

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

WHOOOM!

instant, Shang noticed that a terrifying beam of concentrated space was shooting toward him from a hidden location outside

the beam would have probably been fired at Shang from just a couple of meters

moment, time seemingly stood

space and gravity as a beam

as that happened, Shang

an instant, the entire

like it had

Shang hadn't used his

was the power of

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

now, Shang had absorbed all the Mana in the surrounding kilometers, including the

had turned

Mana in this

It was just nothingness.

currently pressed into Shang's Mana Pathways, putting immense

a couple

unveiled since all the Mana around them

was agonizingly slowly transforming from a

Shang was moving in slow

body had reached a bit more than

a Mid Ancestral Beast, and it

inside Shang moved to

void behind and below Shang

his feet to the solidified

And then, he jumped.

BOOOOOOM!

toward his

beam, which had barely moved 150 meters

the simple metallic rod that was his Subsis

translucent blade made of space and gravity

as quickly

Space and Gravity Mana moved through Shang's Mana Pathways, which had already been emptied of foreign Mana