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 shot

realized that he had entered a hallway with a stairway that went upward, and he had just now

took out the emblem again

Diagonally down.

the door, through the room, and then through the

through some marble again, but he noticed that the angle was different, which meant that he had just

that this stairway led

was just about to kick

He realized something.

looked at the arrow again and oriented himself perfectly

didn't need to adhere to the planned layout if he was

he advanced, the more the arrow was moving

mean that his target was moving but

himself for a battle

Yet, nothing was happening.

rapidly when Shang

realized that his

already

arms forward

then, he saw his

was a small cube of bloody meat surrounding a Space

wasn't particularly

permanently resist the pressure at the bottom

even

was even more

top of that, the Cloud had probably

Mana Shield had been

her Mana had already

earth had killed her and

strong was the body

Not very strong.

Shang's body had

to Shang, it

already under quite a lot of

a Mage's

of the cube of meat

'Pretty good,' he thought.

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

threw the cube of meat to the side again

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

while, Shang noticed that he wasn't destroying marble

through the highest layer of the

that hallway for a bit and noticed that it led to an inconspicuous spot

This was the exit.

exit, Shang turned around again

after opening it, he began to dig