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.

could

Serpent's attack still

Moon around the two of them shrunk by

been two kilometers

only one

hadn't controlled New Moon to slightly expand to let the lightning disperse into the

the expansion, Shang contracted New Moon again

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 best

would escape

the lightning ball moved away from

shot after

And New Moon followed!

Moon,

that moment, Shang

lot

of the Serpent, and it felt

that, it was pushed

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

ball of lightning was

instant, Shang arrived at the frozen part of the Serpent's

on his Great Sword, and

become longer again, but this time,

an icy and sharp pillar that ended in a

stabbed forward, right at the frozen

CRACK!

frozen part of the Serpent's body and completely buried itself inside

extremely sharp but brittle ice, but this technique did exactly the

was not much sharpness to the ice,

icy exterior, all the Ice

And then, it exploded.

CRACK!

exploded off,

Serpent's body as nearly half the width of that

big as the one the wave of black fire had left

another one of

for breaking the opponent's defense, freezing part of its body, and creating a

next and completely destroy that

this

been designed to be used in alternating order

State had been designed to deal with the powerful defenses of the

the Serpent's frozen body scattered across

same time, New Moon

had converted the frozen parts into

made Frostbite more

made Piercing Cold

made New

a positive

was that Shang couldn't absorb these parts for more

moment, the Serpent grew desperate, and it decided to sacrifice the entire ball of

BOOOOOOM!

for an instant

move coming,

lightning had contracted, Shang had willed for all of New Moon to

scattered across the horizon,

very dispersed, and there was

Ice Mana

the gathered

passed, Shang