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 pieces of marble shot past

stairway that went upward, and he had just

the emblem again

Diagonally down.

through

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

meant that this stairway

kick diagonally down when he suddenly

He realized something.

that, he looked at the arrow again

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

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

his target was moving but

for a battle as he

Yet, nothing was happening.

rapidly when Shang

moving it around a bit, Shang realized that his

already

arms forward and dug

then, he saw his

small cube of bloody meat surrounding a

wasn't particularly

pressure

was even

was even more brutal than the pressure

that, the Cloud had probably

her Mana Shield

had already been

sudden explosion of earth had killed her and compressed her

strong was the body of

Not very strong.

as Shang's body had been at

comparison to Shang,

under quite a

how a

Ring out of the

'Pretty good,' he thought.

of

meat to the side again and

of the layout of the trial and kept checking what kind of

Shang noticed that he wasn't destroying marble anymore and

searching through the highest layer of the trial until he found one

hallway for a bit and noticed that it led to an inconspicuous spot at the bottom of the Eternal

This was the exit.

finding the exit, Shang turned around again and

a door, and after opening it,