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 pieces of

hallway with a stairway that went

took out the emblem again

Diagonally down.

the door, through the room,

was different, which meant

meant that this stairway

was just about to kick diagonally

He realized something.

arrow again and oriented himself perfectly in

need to adhere to the planned layout if

advanced, the more the arrow was moving left

moving

himself for a battle as

Yet, nothing was happening.

when Shang was just moving the emblem

realized that his target was essentially directly in front of

arms could already move behind the

arms forward and dug

he saw

of bloody meat

particularly surprised

the pressure at the bottom of the Eternal

was even deeper

more brutal than

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

Shield

had already been

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

was the body of an

Not very strong.

as Shang's body had been

to Shang,

was already under quite a

how a

Ring out of the cube of

'Pretty good,' he thought.

of Grade Seven Mana Crystals. Way better

the cube of meat to

a mental map of the layout of the trial and kept checking

that he wasn't

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

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

This was the exit.

the exit, Shang turned around

opening it, he began to dig more