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

again and looked

Diagonally down.

punched through the door, through the room, and then through the

again, but he noticed that the angle was different, which meant

this stairway led

was just about to kick diagonally

He realized something.

at the arrow again

need to adhere to the planned layout if he

the more the arrow

his target was moving

for a battle as he punched

Yet, nothing was happening.

started to move rapidly when Shang was just moving the

his target was

arms could already move

moved his arms forward and dug more

then, he saw

was a small cube of bloody meat surrounding a Space

wasn't particularly

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

even deeper

even more brutal than the pressure in the

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

Mana Shield

her Mana had already been

the brutal pressure of the sudden explosion of earth had killed her and

was the body of an Early

Not very strong.

probably about as strong as Shang's body

to Shang, it was

already under quite a lot of

how a Mage's body would

out of the cube of meat and

'Pretty good,' he thought.

a couple of Grade Seven Mana Crystals. Way better

of meat to the side again and punched

mental map of the layout of the trial and kept checking what kind of material he was

that he

highest layer of the

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

This was the exit.

the exit, Shang turned around again and followed

opening it, he began to dig more