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," he

the opposite of the first

three Concept of Ice is Blizzard, which doesn't seem to decrease the temperature by a lot

Concept of Ice, Zero, would decrease

to know the Concept of Zero to

just be a two. Sure, they could expect that from Peak Ancestral Mage

probably needs the level three Concept of Ice,

also don't

walked over to the cube and put his hand

cube began to shine in

Ding!

and the

got through that trial

had two properties

void, void meaning the absence of light

had cold

pushed his Ice Mana to the extreme of coldness, which

to the extreme of heat

coldness transformed into something that resembled azure

the

connection between the Affinities came

of brightness would produce the same thing as what pushing

Very bright light.

these two

was true for ice that was pushed

just become

was pushed to the extreme of absorption did just what it

to end, one could envision a

to darkness absorption to darkness void to ice void to ice coldness to fire heat and

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

only the results of the trials were important, not

the blue cube behind and exited

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

CRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

SSSSSSSHHH!

front of Shang was consumed by a sea of

temperatures were changing several times per second,

could definitely kill an Early

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 with