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

that went upward, and

again and

Diagonally down.

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

he noticed that the angle was different, which meant that

that this stairway

to kick diagonally down when he suddenly

He realized something.

again and

adhere to the planned layout if he

he advanced, the

target was moving but that he

prepared himself for a

Yet, nothing was happening.

rapidly when Shang

it around a bit, Shang realized that his target was

arms could already

his arms forward and dug

then, he

was a small cube of

wasn't particularly surprised

couldn't permanently resist the pressure at the bottom

even

pressure underground was even more brutal

the Cloud had probably been

Shield had

had already been

pressure of the sudden explosion of earth had

body

Not very strong.

was probably about as strong as Shang's body had

Shang,

under quite a lot of

could imagine how a Mage's body would

Ring out of the cube of meat and inspected

'Pretty good,' he thought.

guessed that the contents were worth quite a couple of

cube of meat to the

the trial and kept checking what kind of material he

noticed that he

through the highest layer of the

led to

This was the exit.

finding the exit, Shang turned around again

he found a door, and after opening it, he began to