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.

hold a limited amount of Ice Mana.

the opposite of the

of Ice is Blizzard, which doesn't seem to decrease the

four Concept of Ice, Zero, would decrease the

Ancestral Mage to know the Concept

difficulty rating wouldn't just be a two. Sure, they could expect that from Peak Ancestral Mage Clouds, but not from

needs the level three

also don't

walked over to the cube and

later, the cube began to shine in

Ding!

door opened, and

through

like fire and light, ice and darkness also had two properties each, which could be manipulated

absorption and void, void meaning the absence

cold

his Ice Mana to

the extreme of

pushed to the extreme of coldness

about the other

the connection between

of brightness would produce the same thing as what pushing light to the

Very bright light.

where these two Affinities

ice that was pushed to the extreme of

become a

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

could envision a line

heat to fire brightness to light brightness to light mass to darkness absorption to darkness void to

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

designed the trials probably also expected the

of the trials were important, not how

left the blue cube behind and exited the second

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

CRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

SSSSSSSHHH!

space in front of Shang was consumed by a sea of terrifyingly hot

several times per second, and the extremes of temperatures

kill an

of that, there was something else that was

the end of the room with his Spirit Sense, which probably meant that the