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

stairway that

out the emblem again and

Diagonally down.

around, punched through the door, through the room, and

noticed that the angle was different, which meant that he had just punched through the slanted

that this stairway

kick

He realized something.

looked at the arrow again and oriented himself perfectly

didn't need to adhere to the planned layout if he was already

the more he advanced, the more the arrow was moving left and

moving but

a battle as

Yet, nothing was happening.

move rapidly when Shang was just moving the emblem

a bit, Shang realized that his target

arms could already move behind

his arms forward and dug

he

cube of

particularly surprised about

permanently resist the pressure at the bottom of the

even deeper

the pressure underground was even more brutal than

had probably been taken by surprise

Shield

her Mana had already been

the sudden explosion of earth had killed her and

strong was the body

Not very strong.

as strong as Shang's

Shang, it

current body was already under quite a lot

imagine how a Mage's body

Space Ring out of the

'Pretty good,' he thought.

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

meat to the side

mental map of the layout of the trial

Shang noticed that he wasn't destroying

searching through the highest layer of the trial until he found one single hallway that

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

This was the exit.

finding the exit, Shang turned around again and followed

and after opening it, he began