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

hallway with a stairway that went upward, and he had just now punched

the emblem again and looked at

Diagonally down.

turned around, punched through the door, through the

angle was different, which meant that he had

this stairway led

kick diagonally

He realized something.

the arrow again

to the planned layout if he was already accidentally destroying the walls and

more he advanced, the

was moving but

himself for a battle as he punched

Yet, nothing was happening.

the arrow started to move rapidly when Shang was

his

already move behind the

arms forward and dug

then, he

small cube of bloody meat surrounding

particularly

Ancestral Mages couldn't permanently resist the pressure at

spot was even deeper than

the pressure underground was even more brutal than the pressure

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

her Mana Shield had

Mana had already

earth had killed

body of an Early

Not very strong.

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

Shang, it was

already under quite

imagine how a

Ring out of the cube of meat

'Pretty good,' he thought.

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

threw the cube of meat to the side again

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

noticed that he wasn't destroying marble anymore and

through the highest layer of the trial until he found one

noticed that it led

This was the exit.

Shang turned around

door, and after opening it,