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.

pieces of marble shot past

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

again

Diagonally down.

he turned around, punched through the door, through the room, and then

the angle was

this stairway

kick diagonally down when he suddenly

He realized something.

again and

that he didn't need to adhere to the planned layout if he was already accidentally destroying the walls and

punched forward, and the more he advanced, the more the arrow was moving left

moving

himself for a

Yet, nothing was happening.

arrow started to move rapidly when Shang was just moving the

moving it around a bit, Shang realized that his target was essentially directly in

arms could already move behind the

moved his arms forward

then, he saw

was a small cube of bloody meat surrounding a

wasn't particularly

permanently resist the pressure at the bottom of the Eternal

was even deeper than

was even more

of that, the Cloud had probably been taken by surprise while

Shield

had already

explosion of earth had killed

body

Not very strong.

Shang's body had been at the Mid

to Shang,

already under quite a lot of

could imagine how a Mage's

Ring out of the cube of meat and

'Pretty good,' he thought.

the contents were worth quite a couple of Grade

to the side again

layout of the trial

while, Shang noticed that he wasn't destroying marble anymore and

couple of minutes, Shang kept searching through the highest layer of the trial until he found one single

led to an inconspicuous spot at the bottom of the

This was the exit.

the exit, Shang turned around again

and after opening it, he began to