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 marble shot

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

the emblem again and

Diagonally down.

through the door, through the room, and

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

that this

kick diagonally down

He realized something.

arrow again and oriented himself perfectly in

realized that he didn't need to adhere to the planned layout if

he advanced, the more the arrow was moving left and

didn't mean that his target was moving but that he was getting

himself for a battle as he punched

Yet, nothing was happening.

started to move rapidly when Shang

it around a bit, Shang realized that his target was

already

forward and dug

he

of bloody meat surrounding a

particularly surprised

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

was even deeper than

underground was even more

top of that, the Cloud had probably been taken

Shield had been

her Mana had

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

was the body

Not very strong.

about as strong as Shang's body had been at

Shang, it was

current body was already under quite a

could imagine how a

Space Ring out of the cube of

'Pretty good,' he thought.

quite a couple of Grade Seven Mana Crystals. Way better

meat to the side again

layout of the trial and kept checking what kind of material

while, Shang noticed that he

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

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 after opening it, he began to dig more