Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang noticed that the barrier before him started to distort under the pressure.

Shang pulled his hand back and healed himself to his peak.

He had filled the barrier with an unreal amount of Death Mana, and it wouldn't stop absorbing Mana anytime soon.

Shang watched the barrier distort more and more until…

BANG!

The barrier shattered.

WHOOOOOOM!

As the entire barrier around the trial vanished, all the wet ground surrounding it suddenly imploded, filling the spots that had been filled with normal air until now.

In the short moment when the barrier had been destroyed but the earth hadn't yet filled in the empty space, Shang had been able to feel his surroundings with his Spirit Sense.

The image Shang had seen was of a rather large room with several pitfalls, several Magic Circles, and several platforms.

Shang assumed that this had probably been some kind of trial where people had to find out how the Magic Circles worked to divine the correct way across the platforms and pitfalls.

But now…

As soon as the barrier broke, all the earth rushed into the room, destroying the platforms, filling the pitfalls, and disrupting almost all the Magic Circles.

Shang remained standing on his spot for a couple of seconds until all the ground around him had calmed down.

Then, Shang took out the emblem and looked at the arrow.

Diagonally down.

Shang hadn't seen his target in the brief moment before the earth had filled in the gaps, which meant that his target was inside a different challenge within the trial.

Shang remembered where one of the doors had been and dug towards that spot by punching more dirt.

None of the pitfalls, platforms, and Magic Circles worked anymore.

Some seconds later, Shang reached the doorway, and one punch later, the door opened slightly.

WHOOOM!

The door immediately exploded outward, and the earth around Shang rushed into the opened doorway.

Shang simply continued punching forward.

BANG!

After one particular punch, Shang noticed that he had destroyed something that wasn't the normal kind of ground.

of

a hallway with a stairway that went upward,

again and

Diagonally down.

the door, through

was different, which meant that he had just punched through the

that this stairway led

kick diagonally down

He realized something.

arrow again and

need to adhere to the planned layout if he

the more he advanced, the

his target was moving but that he

himself for a battle as he

Yet, nothing was happening.

when

Shang realized that his target was

arms could already move behind

moved his arms forward and dug more

he saw

small cube of

particularly surprised about

resist the pressure at the bottom of

even

underground was even more brutal than the pressure in the

that, the Cloud had probably been

Mana Shield

Mana had already been

the brutal pressure of the sudden explosion of earth had killed her and compressed her into this tiny cube of

strong was the body of an

Not very strong.

as Shang's body had been at the Mid

comparison to Shang, it was

current body was already under quite a lot

imagine how a Mage's body

Space Ring out of the cube of meat and

'Pretty good,' he thought.

couple of Grade Seven Mana Crystals. Way

cube of meat to the side again and

the layout of the trial and kept checking what kind

a while, Shang noticed that he wasn't

the highest layer of the

and noticed that it led to an inconspicuous spot at the bottom

This was the exit.

turned around again and followed

opening it, he began to dig