Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang's body atrophied, but it wasn't as extreme as usual. After all, Shang couldn't weaken his body too much, or the pressure in the surroundings would kill him.

CRK!

Several of Shang's bones broke, and his muscles were torn.

However, everything was still under control.

While all of this was going on, Shang kept infusing the barrier in front of him with the Death Mana he was creating. He was keeping the amount of Death Mana in his body consistent so that he perpetually remained at the edge of death.

Shang remained like this for several minutes.

Meanwhile, many kilometers away, a Bolt was watching over the Clouds that had been assigned to him, with Shang being one of them.

He was paying special attention to Shang due to his identity as a warrior and the fact that he had just found one of the exclusive trials within the Deep Crevices.

These trials housed several challenges, and if one managed to clear all of them, one would get the rewards.

Most of the time, the first challenge of a trial was to find it.

The entrance to the Trial Shang was trying to get into was at the bottom of the crevice, and one would need to pay special attention to all the Earth Mana down there.

If one had some ability to reveal Magic Circles or secrets, one could find the entrance. After that, one only needed to reverse engineer the key to open the entrance.

"Wonder how long he will keep trying," the Bolt muttered to himself.

There was only one entrance to this Trial, and the place where Shang was trying to get to was not an entrance.

It was a wall.

Since Clouds were not supposed to enter from this point, the barrier on the walls was extremely powerful. One would need to be a strong Mage Lord to break through this barrier, and one would also need a couple of minutes to get through it.

Obviously, no Ancestral Mage Cloud could possibly hope to get through that barrier.

More minutes passed, and eventually, the Bolt noticed that the spot that Shang had been touching had turned grey.

The Bolt was quite surprised that a warrior at the Early Sixth Realm could influence such a powerful barrier, but that still shouldn't be an issue.

Some more minutes passed, and the grey spot had grown to be as big as Shang.

The clear parts around that grey spot had also started to vibrate, and Mana was ceaselessly flowing into the grey spot like a flood.

Bolt looked with interest

never seen anything like

Bolt's Communication

"Yes?" he asked casually.

the furious shout of Lucin out of the

Bolt was taken aback. "I'm not sure what you mean, Lucin," the Bolt

been told that one of the people you are supposed to watch

the

mean with what do you mean?!"

don't know what you're referring to.

Silence.

some kind of protest?" Lucin asked with a threatening

blinked in

answered with

with

mind

idea what

he asked. "I genuinely have no idea

that Beast Lord that

Silence.

as he inspected Trial 31.

Silence.

the Bolt heard a

more Mana than regenerating?" Lucin asked with

the Bolt shouted

looked at the barrier of Trial 31 again, but he couldn't see

lot of Mana was moving across the barrier in one stream, which was very similar to

his eyes fell on the

"Lucin," the Bolt said.

shouted

is no beast interacting with that barrier in any way. The only thing interacting with that barrier is one of the Clouds," the Bolt

the Clouds?!" Lucin

And then, silence.

asked in

warrior," the Bolt

sigh coming from the

on?" Lucin

and it is growing by the second. The grey

think this Cloud actually has a shot at breaking through the barrier," the