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.

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

the opposite of the first

decrease the temperature by a lot more than

four Concept of Ice, Zero,

expect an Early Ancestral Mage to know the Concept of Zero to

so. Otherwise, the difficulty rating wouldn't just be a two. Sure, they could expect that from Peak

probably needs the level three Concept of Ice,

don't have

the cube and put

second later, the cube began to shine in

Ding!

door opened, and the

got through that trial

and light, ice and darkness also had two properties

void, void meaning

cold and

simply pushed his Ice Mana to the extreme of coldness, which

extreme of heat

coldness transformed into something

the

the connection between the Affinities came

the same thing as

Very bright light.

was where these two Affinities

for ice that

just become

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

beginning to end, one could envision

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

the contestant to use the pure Concepts of Fire and Ice to get through the trials, but the Concepts of Subtraction and Addition worked just

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

the trials were important, not how the

blue cube behind and

he reached the third trial, and as soon as he saw it, he realized that this would be very different from

CRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

SSSSSSSHHH!

was consumed by a sea of terrifyingly hot flames one instant before being flooded with

second, and the extremes of temperatures

definitely kill an Early

of that, there was something

with his Spirit Sense, which probably meant that the inside of the