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 marble

stairway that went upward,

again

Diagonally down.

the door, through the room, and then through the

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

this stairway led

was just about to kick diagonally down

He realized something.

he looked at the arrow again and oriented himself perfectly in the

the planned

advanced, the more the arrow was

moving but that

himself for a battle as

Yet, nothing was happening.

to move rapidly when

his target was essentially directly in front

arms could already

forward and

then, he

of bloody meat surrounding a Space

particularly

resist the pressure at the bottom

was even deeper than

underground was even more brutal than the pressure in the

probably been taken by surprise while

Shield

had already

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

the body of an Early Ancestral

Not very strong.

strong as Shang's body had been at the Mid True

to Shang,

body was already under quite a

could imagine how a Mage's body would

dug the Space Ring out of the cube of

'Pretty good,' he thought.

were worth quite a couple of Grade Seven Mana Crystals. Way better than the beggar from

cube of meat to the side again and

kept a mental map of the layout of the trial and kept checking what kind of material he

noticed that he

layer of the

for a bit and noticed that it led

This was the exit.

the exit, Shang turned around again and followed the hallway

found a door, and after opening