Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang left the third challenge and walked to the next room, which was where the rewards were stored.

He entered a rather sizable hall with five rows of floating items.

Most of the items were in the first row and the least in the fifth.

Shang could see all the items in the first four rows, but the single item in the fifth row was obscured by a barrier.

In front of the first row of items was a stele that explained everything.

"Congratulations on passing the trial!"

"Your performance has been judged to be Four Stars. You may choose one item amongst the first four rows."

'Four Stars?' Shang thought.

A little bit lower, Shang could see how the trial judged performances.

One Star: Get to the end.

Two Stars: Get to the end and fulfill the criterium for success for one of the first two challenges.

Three Stars: Get to the end and fulfill the criteria for success for both of the first two challenges.

Four Stars: Get to the end and achieve minor success on the first two challenges.

Five Stars: Get to the end and achieve major success on the first two challenges.

That answered some of the questions Shang had.

'It seems like the first two challenges were actually optional, and I only needed to get through the third one to get a reward.'

'I presume that knowing the level three Concepts for ice and fire would get someone a three-star evaluation. To get a four-star one, someone probably needs to push it even further.'

'The five-star one probably needs the level four Concepts for both of them.'

to the Concept of Twilight, my Concepts of Addition and Subtraction can now exhibit the power of level three Concepts, which would allow them to get a

Subtraction and Addition specialize in producing extreme results, it was enough to get a

five-star one, I would probably need Subtraction, Addition, Incineration, and Blizzard.

at the items he could choose

filled with small piles of Grade Seven Mana Crystals,

small emblems signifying

had some herbs

any of them, but he guessed that

third row was filled with

could see, these were Spell Books. He guessed that these were probably Spells that past Clouds had come up with, which would make them worth

get the right

row only had three

three were vouchers to access useful

Shang couldn't see

But that didn't matter.

getting through it the

managed to enter the room of rewards

past the rewards, to one

BANG!

the wall into dust, revealing a barrier

I broke the big Magic Circle, this probably means that the barriers protecting all the individual rewards are probably

barriers will break, and I will have a moment to gather

a husk again as he continued touching

above the

one,' he thought. 'I won't

barriers that will kill anyone that damages

Lucin sighed again.

'Fucking Death Mana.'

later, the ground

trial had been buried by the

and Shang floated out of

bit excited as he looked at all the rewards in

a lot of