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

that went upward, and

out the emblem again and looked at

Diagonally down.

through the door, through the room, and then through the other

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

this stairway led

was just about to kick diagonally down when

He realized something.

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

to the planned layout if he was already accidentally destroying the walls and

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

was moving but that

a battle

Yet, nothing was happening.

to move rapidly when Shang was just moving

bit, Shang realized that his target

arms could already move behind the

arms forward

he

of bloody meat surrounding a

particularly

Mages couldn't permanently resist the pressure at the bottom of the

was even

more

that, the Cloud had probably been taken by surprise

her Mana Shield

had

earth had killed her and

was the body of an

Not very strong.

body was probably about as strong as Shang's body had been at the Mid True

comparison to Shang, it

already under quite a lot of

how a Mage's body would

Ring out of

'Pretty good,' he thought.

were worth quite a couple of Grade Seven Mana Crystals. Way better than the

cube of meat to the side again and

the trial and kept checking what kind of material

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

layer of the trial until he found one single

noticed that it led to an inconspicuous spot at the bottom of

This was the exit.

exit, Shang turned around again and followed the hallway

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