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.

can only hold a limited amount of Ice Mana. Make it as cold as possible,"

opposite of the

to decrease the temperature

Ice, Zero, would

to know the Concept

they could expect that from Peak Ancestral Mage Clouds, but not

the level three Concept

don't have

walked over to the cube and

began

Ding!

opened, and

through that

two properties each,

meaning

had cold and

his Ice Mana to the extreme of coldness, which

pushed to the extreme of heat

extreme of coldness transformed into

the

the connection between the

the same thing as what

Very bright light.

where these two

that was pushed to the extreme

would just become a very dark

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

one could envision

darkness absorption to darkness void to ice void to ice coldness to fire

makers of this trial probably envisioned the contestant to use the pure Concepts of Fire and Ice to get through the trials, but the Concepts of Subtraction and Addition worked

the Bolts that had designed the trials probably also expected the Clouds to get through the trials in ways

results of the trials were

cube behind

third trial, and as soon as he saw it, he realized that this would

CRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

SSSSSSSHHH!

front of Shang was consumed by a sea of terrifyingly hot flames one

second, and the extremes of

definitely kill an Early Ancestral

of that, there was something else that

Spirit Sense, which probably meant that the inside of the