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

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

took out the emblem again

Diagonally down.

through the room, and then through the

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

this stairway

to kick diagonally down when he

He realized something.

at the arrow again

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

more he advanced, the more

target was moving but that he was getting closer

prepared himself for a battle as he

Yet, nothing was happening.

rapidly when Shang was just

bit, Shang realized that his target was essentially directly in front

already move behind

arms forward

then, he saw his

a small cube of

particularly

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

was even deeper than

was even more brutal than the

of that, the Cloud had probably

her Mana Shield

had already

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

strong was the body

Not very strong.

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

Shang,

current body was already under quite a

could imagine how a Mage's

Space Ring out of the cube

'Pretty good,' he thought.

of Grade Seven Mana Crystals. Way better than the beggar

of meat to the side again and

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

while, Shang noticed that he

minutes, Shang kept searching through the highest layer of the trial until he found one single hallway

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

This was the exit.

turned around again and followed the hallway

found a door, and after opening it, he began