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 marble shot past

had entered a hallway with a stairway that went

the emblem again and looked at

Diagonally down.

through the

that the angle was different, which meant that he

this

to kick diagonally down when he suddenly

He realized something.

at the arrow again

he didn't need to adhere to the planned

he advanced, the

moving but that he was getting closer to

a battle

Yet, nothing was happening.

the arrow started to move rapidly when

that his target was essentially directly in

arms could already move

arms forward and dug

he

was a small cube of

particularly surprised

the pressure at the bottom

was even

even more brutal than the

the Cloud had probably been taken by surprise while

her Mana Shield had been

Mana had already been

the sudden explosion of earth had killed her and compressed her

strong was the body of an Early Ancestral

Not very strong.

about as strong as Shang's body

Shang, it

was already under quite a lot

how a Mage's body

Space Ring out of the cube of meat and

'Pretty good,' he thought.

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

cube of meat to the

the trial and kept checking

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

searching through the highest layer of

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

This was the exit.

the exit, Shang turned around again

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