Sword God in a World of Magic

"Increase the temperature inside the furnace as much as possible while using as little Fire Mana as possible," Shang read.

'Interesting. This is a trial that tests someone's mastery over the Fire Affinity. Hotter fire is more destructive, and by using as little Fire Mana as possible, this trial is testing the quality of someone's Concepts and mastery over fire.'

'The level four Concept of Fire is Explosion, which can probably produce extremely hot flames. Even the level three Concept Incineration can create powerful flames, but for a Cloud that found this place, this is probably the bare minimum.'

'However, this is also just the first trial. I would expect it to be easy.'

'I guess it needs the level three Concept of Fire, Incineration to complete it. I guess a Cloud that knows a lot about temperatures would have comprehended that Concept.'

'Sadly, I don't have that Concept.'

Shang walked over to the glass furnace and flew to its top.

Then, he extended his right hand.

A moment later, the space below his hand seemed to distort with some invisible waves.

After some time, the air in the entire furnace seemed to warp and wave in a strange manner. It was almost like the world inside the furnace was about to break down.

Ding!

At that moment, the door leading out of the room opened as the barrier vanished.

Shang had fulfilled the requirements.

He might not have the Concept of Incineration, but he had the Concept of Addition.

Light had two aspects, which were mass and brightness.

Fire also had two aspects, which were heat and brightness.

Shang had converted all the brightness in the fire into heat, which was why the fire he had just dropped in the furnace had been nearly invisible to the eye.

Naturally, this kind of fire was far hotter than normal fire since all of its power was focused on heat.

And that had been enough for Shang to get past the first trial.

Shang landed in front of the exit and walked through it.

Some seconds later, Shang opened the door to the second trial.

This time, there was a blue cube in the middle of the room.

Shang looked to the side at an emblem and read the instructions.

a limited amount of Ice

opposite of

decrease the temperature

Concept of Ice, Zero, would decrease

to know the Concept

be a two. Sure, they

guess it probably needs the level three Concept of

don't

cube and put his hand on

began

Ding!

opened, and the barrier

got through

also had two properties each, which could be manipulated

had absorption and void, void meaning the absence of light in this

had cold and

simply pushed his Ice Mana to

the extreme of heat

extreme of coldness transformed into

about the other

was where the connection between the Affinities came

fire to the extreme of brightness would produce the same thing

Very bright light.

these two Affinities were

for ice that was pushed to the

would just become a very dark

pushed to the extreme of absorption did just what it said. It

one could

brightness to light brightness to light mass to darkness absorption to darkness void to ice void to ice coldness to

of this trial probably envisioned the contestant to use the pure Concepts of Fire and Ice to get through

involving the Clouds was special, and the Bolts that had designed the trials probably also expected the Clouds to get through the

of that, only the results of the trials were

the blue cube behind

saw it, he realized that

CRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

SSSSSSSHHH!

by a sea of terrifyingly

temperatures were changing several times per second, and the extremes of temperatures were no

definitely kill an Early Ancestral

was something else that

with his Spirit Sense, which probably meant that the inside of the room had been enlarged with