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.

couple of pieces of

realized that he had entered a hallway with a stairway that went

took out the emblem again and looked at the

Diagonally down.

he turned around, punched through the door, through

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

that this stairway

about to kick diagonally down

He realized something.

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

need to adhere to the planned layout if he was

punched forward, and the more he advanced, the more

was moving but that he was getting closer to

himself for a battle

Yet, nothing was happening.

started to move rapidly when

realized that his target was essentially directly in front

already move behind

moved his arms forward

then, he

a small cube of

wasn't particularly surprised about

pressure at the bottom of the

spot was even deeper

was even more brutal

of that, the Cloud had probably been taken

Shield had

Mana had already been

sudden explosion of earth had killed her and

body of an Early Ancestral

Not very strong.

strong as Shang's body had been at the Mid

comparison to Shang,

under quite

imagine how a Mage's

Space Ring out of the cube of

'Pretty good,' he thought.

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

the cube of meat to the side

the trial and kept checking what kind of

while, Shang noticed that he wasn't destroying marble

of minutes, Shang kept searching through the highest layer of the

hallway for a bit and noticed that it led to an

This was the exit.

the exit, Shang turned around again and followed

opening it, he began to dig more