Sword God in a World of Magic

The Serpent was now in Shang's domain.

As soon as it realized that its body temperature was dropping, the humongous ball of lightning expanded to envelop the Serpent.

It absorbed parts of its own lightning to keep itself warm while also making it more difficult for the opponent to hit it through all the lightning.

Shang quickly saw his opportunity.

A terrifyingly cold wind gathered on his Great Sword.

And then, he slashed forward.

It looked like Shang would miss, but at the last moment, the length of his Sword grew by several times!

A humongous and icy edge formed in front of Shang's Sword!

The icy edge entered the ball of lightning.

WHOOSH!

However, the attack missed!

The ball of lightning had canceled out the Ice Mana inside the icy edge, dispersing it.

But the ball of lightning also shrank.

At that moment, part of the Serpent's body was revealed again.

More Ice Mana gathered on the Great Sword, and Shang slashed forward again.

CRACK!

The icy edge hit the scales and exploded!

However, the strength of the icy edge wasn't its hardness but its unreasonable sharpness!

Even though it shattered immediately, it still left behind a terrifying cut.

And that wasn't even everything!

The splinters of ice exploded in all directions, but nearly half of them exploded right into the cut the icy edge had just made!

The splinters were just as sharp as the icy edge and lodged themselves inside the Serpent's flesh.

But just moments later, they all dispersed into seemingly nothing. Of course, Mana didn't just vanish without using Entropy.

All the splinters transformed into Ice Mana and entered the Serpent's body, freezing it!

A sizable chunk of the Serpent's body was now completely frozen!

This was another one of Shang's new techniques in his Great Sword State.

Its goal was to leave a superficial injury on a target with terrifying defense.

Then, the hit part would cool down significantly and freeze.

Shang called this attack Frostbite.

At that moment, the Serpent realized that it was in a truly life-threatening situation, and it acted.

BOOOOM!

A huge portion of the ball of lightning exploded, bathing the surroundings in a terrifying wave of lightning.

However, an equally terrifying mass of Ice Mana gathered in front of Shang, canceling out the lightning.

he could

Serpent's attack still showed some

New Moon around the two of them

been two

it was only

controlled New Moon to slightly expand to let the lightning disperse into the surroundings, it

expansion, Shang contracted New Moon again to restore the

that the lightning ball had shrunk even more. Even if the Serpent tried

to be to throw the opponent away and to get rid of the

it realized that even this attack had been useless, it decided on the next

would escape

Serpent and the lightning ball moved away from Shang

quickly shot after

And New Moon followed!

the core of New Moon, and

moment, Shang saw

willed New Moon to use a lot of

wind picked up in front of the Serpent, and it felt

of that, it was

went in front of the Serpent's head, blocking the cold wind and

the ball of lightning

arrived at the frozen part

on his Great Sword, and it

again, but this time, there was no

and sharp pillar that ended in a terrifyingly thin

Shang stabbed forward, right at

CRACK!

thin point hit the frozen part of the Serpent's body and

extremely sharp but brittle ice, but

not much sharpness to the ice, but it was

Sword punched through the icy exterior, all the Ice Mana gathered onto

And then, it exploded.

CRACK!

the Serpent exploded off, and the

exploded out of the Serpent's body as nearly half the width of that portion of its

big as the one

another one of

for breaking the opponent's defense, freezing part of its

would follow next and completely

called this attack

be used in alternating order to deal with beasts that

to

the parts of the Serpent's frozen body scattered across the surroundings, they

same time, New Moon

had converted the frozen

Moon made Frostbite

Piercing

made New Moon

a positive feedback

only drawback was that Shang couldn't absorb these parts for

desperate, and it decided to sacrifice the entire

BOOOOOOM!

an instant

had already seen that move coming, and he had prepared

when the ball of lightning had contracted, Shang had willed for all of New Moon to gather

horizon, growing weaker and weaker the further it

dispersed, and there was actually nothing

Ice Mana

spot where Shang was standing was surrounded by all the gathered power of New Moon, easily resisting the dispersed

wave of lightning passed, Shang