Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang wasn't quite sure why there was a fountain of blood in the middle of the hall, but his question got answered rather quickly as letters appeared in the air.

"Put a drop of your blood in the fountain."

Shang walked over to the fountain and cut his finger.

A small stream of blood flowed down Shang's finger since he wasn't really careful with the depth of the cut.

As the first drops of blood hit the fountain, one of the doors at the edges of the hall opened, and Shang walked through.

The door closed behind him, and Shang's Spirit Sense could no longer see the fountain.

Shang found himself in an old hallway, but he didn't really care about it a whole lot as he just continued walking.

Shang walked slightly downward for several minutes. He wasn't moving at his top speed, but he was still moving at quite a brisk pace.

Shang had probably moved around 200,000 kilometers deep into the ground, which was quite surprising.

Why would anyone need such a long hallway?

Eventually, Shang reached another door and opened it.

He was greeted by a dark room with a floating transparent cube in the middle.

Shang could see a small inscription in the middle of the cube.

"Banish the darkness with light."

Shang looked around his new surroundings.

His Spirit Sense was severely suppressed, only allowing him to view a couple of meters of his surroundings. Additionally, Shang could feel very dense Darkness Mana around him.

Even more, the Darkness Mana had a will on it, which seemed to be impossible. After all, how could a dead person imprint their will on Mana?

However, Shang knew that these rules had only remained true for the people he had been fighting against.

Mage Kings and Mage Emperors might have ways to mimic wills with Magic Circles.

Nevertheless, the will was a problem since this meant that Shang couldn't control the Darkness Mana or move it. So, he actually had to do this small challenge the intended way.

walked over to the cube and

infused

darkness receded, revealing the surrounding five meters to

had to remember that lower-level Concepts also increased in power as one understood more Concepts of an Affinity. That was the very reason why Concepts very often

Illumination was only technically a level one Concept, it had

even more, revealing

darkness, which probably meant

Addition

the entire

had only

I could have illuminated

Addition were the

the level two Concept of Light, Particle, Shang would have illuminated

had the Concept of Illumination, he would have barely illuminated the

have to know the level four Concept Light, Dawn, or the level one Concept of Light paired

Trial of Want has been created by Lucius for his successor, I can guess what kind of trials will await me next,"

to the door, opened it, and walked

as previously,

kilometers to the north

for once, he was glad that he didn't

It was very bright.

a transparent cube levitating

the light with

previous cube, there was an

infused

Five meters.

Darkness, Blindness, strengthened by the level three Concept of Darkness,

15 meters.

Concept of Twilight and

the last one, it was about 20

the Darkness Affinity that pushes Darkness Mana to an extreme of darkness is

knowing the level one Concept of Darkness actually wouldn't be enough to advance, even if someone knew the Concepts of Twilight and

than other Concepts. It's just how we classify them based on how

comprehend the Concept of Blindness first. It

is Lucius simply testing someone on how many Concepts they know, or

hallway, which was