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 pieces of

that went upward, and he had just now punched through

took out the emblem again and looked at

Diagonally down.

turned around, punched through the door, through

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

meant that this

just about to kick diagonally down

He realized something.

arrow again and oriented himself

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

advanced, the more the

was moving but

himself for a

Yet, nothing was happening.

when Shang was just moving

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

arms could already

his arms forward and dug

he

cube of bloody meat surrounding

particularly surprised

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

even deeper than

was even more brutal

had probably been taken by surprise while undertaking

her Mana Shield had been

had already been

had killed

strong was the body of an Early

Not very strong.

body was probably about as strong as Shang's body had been at the

comparison to Shang, it

was already under quite a lot

how a Mage's body

of

'Pretty good,' he thought.

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

cube of meat to the side

of the layout of the trial and kept checking what kind of material

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

searching through the highest layer of the trial until he found

that hallway for a bit and noticed that it led to an inconspicuous spot at

This was the exit.

turned around again and followed the

door, and after opening it, he began to dig more