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.

over to the cube and

later, he infused it with

receded, revealing the surrounding five meters

his level one Concept of Illumination to increase the brightness of the light. One 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

light extended even more, revealing the surrounding

couldn't see anything of note in the darkness, which probably meant that he needed to create

of Twilight and Addition to move the

instant, the entire room

door had only been about 20 meters

quite sure I could have

and Addition were the ones that had the

had the level two Concept of Light, Particle, Shang would have illuminated about 30

Concept of Illumination,

Concept Light, Dawn, or the level one Concept of Light paired with the Concepts of Twilight and Addition,' Shang

created by Lucius for his successor, I can guess what

door, opened it, and walked through

was just as long as previously, and it kept going

to the north of the

arrived at the next door and opened it, and for once, he

It was very bright.

a transparent cube levitating

light with

the previous cube, there

infused

Five meters.

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

15 meters.

used the Concept

like the last one, it was about 20 meters to the

to the Light Affinity, the first Concept of the Darkness Affinity that pushes Darkness Mana to an

be enough to

aren't really stronger or weaker than other Concepts. It's just how we classify

the Concept of Blindness first.

wonder, is Lucius simply testing someone on how many

hall and entered the next hallway, which was just as long as