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 marble

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

again and looked at the

Diagonally down.

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

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

meant that this stairway

was just about to kick diagonally down when he suddenly

He realized something.

he looked at the arrow again and oriented himself perfectly

need to adhere to the planned layout if he was already

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

target was moving but that he was getting

for a battle as he

Yet, nothing was happening.

the arrow started to move rapidly when Shang

that his target

could already move behind the

arms forward and dug more

he saw

a small cube of bloody meat surrounding a Space

particularly surprised

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

spot was even deeper than

more brutal than the pressure

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

Mana Shield

Mana had already been

sudden explosion of earth had killed her and compressed her into this tiny

body

Not very strong.

Shang's

comparison to Shang,

was already under

imagine how a

the Space Ring out of the

'Pretty good,' he thought.

a couple of Grade Seven

of meat to the

mental map of the layout of the trial and kept checking what kind of

while, Shang noticed that he wasn't destroying marble

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

it led to an inconspicuous spot at the bottom of

This was the exit.

Shang turned around again and followed the hallway

a door, and after opening it, he