Sword God in a World of Magic

After thinking about his options for a while, Shang decided to walk along the bottom of the Eternal Ocean.

If he could find an entrance to a trial, he could earn a lot of money.

As long as he actually won the trial fairly, his rewards wouldn't be destroyed.

He walked along the ground of the Eternal Ocean and focused on all manners of fluctuations around him.

There were no beasts or humans around him.

There was only the deep darkness and pressure of the Eternal Ocean.

There were no streams at the bottom of the Eternal Ocean, making it feel dead.

Shang just kept walking through the darkness and pressure.

It was like he had been transported to a different world.

When he reached a crevice, Shang jumped down and inspected the entire thing.

Some crevices were small, while others were huge.

Yet, everything seemed to be the same, and Shang found no traces of strange fluctuations.

But he also hadn't expected to. After all, the Deep Crevices was a huge wilderness, and Shang's Spirit Sense wasn't that big right now.

The Early Ancestral Mage from earlier had probably known about the location of the trial before she had even jumped into the ocean.

The Clouds weren't stupid, and they even used information as resources.

Just pay a couple of Mana Crystals, and we will tell you where you can find one of the trials in the Deep Crevices. If you get lucky and get sent to the Deep Crevices, you will earn far more, and if you don't, there's always next time.

No one wanted the others to earn money without them getting a cut themselves.

As for people that weren't willing to purchase the locations of trials, they had to search for them on their own, and the chances of them finding one weren't very high.

After all, the trials were well hidden, and the wilderness was vast.

Nevertheless, Shang continued slowly searching through the crevices.

He moved methodically and efficiently.

Several days seemed to pass in the blink of an eye.

The surroundings hadn't changed.

However, Shang had changed.

Shang's body was losing a bit of blood through a couple of cuts, and his skin didn't seem as healthy anymore.

It looked like Shang's body couldn't permanently stay at the bottom of the Endless Ocean without slowly deteriorating.

But Shang didn't seem to mind.

A couple more days passed, and Shang's body released a bit more blood than before.

CRK!

broke, and as soon as it did,

in pain as his head faced

and started

recover in shallower

WHOOOM!

of

Oh no!

An ambush!

was at his

WHOOOOM!

and all the Mana in the surroundings vanished, leaving a void

had someone else's will

was one

also filled with Darkness Mana that wasn't

his Subsis and slashed at one

DING!

the Subsis hit the claw,

same time, Shang's body atrophied

there was one

Subsis now had a long edge made of

BANG!

the foreign Mana inside himself to

to the side, he pointed his darkness-filled Subsis at the

BANG!

out of Shang's Subsis at incredible speeds and hit the opponent before they could

BANG!

the target and scattered. It was like someone

then, the piece of

from the Eternal Ocean filled the void,

The opponent had retreated.

believed that Shang had been at his weakest, but that had

soon as they had seen Shang recover in an instant, they decided

to hit them

attack wasn't

speed had been

was way too

one of the attacks Shang had designed to finish off a Mage after they deactivated their Mana Shield

of power, but it was the fastest attack

Shang called it Needle.

was made to work with

need to be used after

didn't change as he

could also be used to

moment, Shang felt a clear trail of

summoned Ice and Fire

using Comet to shoot

could move without wasting resources, and it was

bit faster, but

knew where

opponent didn't know where

Shang saw half a sphere of

directions, and