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 Mana. Make it as cold as

opposite of the

Blizzard, which doesn't seem to decrease the temperature by a lot more than just the level two

course, the level four Concept of Ice, Zero, would decrease the temperature drastically

Mage to

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

guess it probably needs the level three Concept

don't

walked over to the cube and put his

second later, the cube began to shine in a

Ding!

opened, and the

got through that trial

ice and darkness also had two properties each, which could be manipulated with

void meaning the

had cold

Ice Mana to the extreme of coldness, which had been

of heat transformed

pushed to the extreme of coldness transformed into something that resembled

the other

the connection between the Affinities came into

produce the same thing as what

Very bright light.

was where these two

same thing was true for ice that

would just become a very

the extreme of absorption did just what it said. It

one could envision

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

and Ice to get through

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

of that, only the results of the trials were

left the blue cube behind

he saw it, he realized that this would be very different from

CRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

SSSSSSSHHH!

sea of terrifyingly hot flames

second, and the extremes of

definitely kill

top of that, there was something else that was

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