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 past

stairway that went upward, and he had just now punched through the

again and looked at

Diagonally down.

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

through some marble again, but he noticed that the angle was different, which meant

meant that this

to kick diagonally down when he

He realized something.

again

the planned layout if he was already

more he advanced, the more the

that his target was moving but that he was getting closer

prepared himself for a battle

Yet, nothing was happening.

rapidly when Shang was just moving the

it around a bit, Shang realized that his target was essentially directly

already move behind

moved his arms forward and dug more

he saw his

cube of bloody meat surrounding a

particularly surprised

the pressure at

even

even more brutal

probably been taken by surprise

Mana Shield had been

had

of earth had killed

strong was the body of an Early Ancestral

Not very strong.

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

comparison to Shang, it was

body was already under

could imagine how a Mage's body

the Space Ring out of the cube of meat and

'Pretty good,' he thought.

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

the cube of meat to

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

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

layer of the trial until he found one single hallway

a bit and noticed that it led to an inconspicuous spot

This was the exit.

around again and followed the hallway

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