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.

was his domain, and he could use all the Ice

Serpent's attack still showed some

area of New Moon around the two of them shrunk by a

had been

was only

the lightning disperse into the surroundings, it would have

New Moon

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

be to throw the opponent away and to get rid of the icy domain, but it

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

escape the

lightning ball moved away from Shang in an effort to

shot

And New Moon followed!

of New Moon,

Shang

use a lot of its

of the Serpent, and

of that, it was

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

ball of

at the frozen part of the

on his Great Sword, and it had changed

this time, there was no emphasis on the

an icy and sharp pillar that

stabbed forward, right at

CRACK!

hit the frozen part of the

but brittle ice, but this technique did

the ice, but it was

through the icy exterior, all the Ice Mana gathered

And then, it exploded.

CRACK!

the Serpent exploded off, and the

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

just as big as the one the wave of black

one of Shang's

the opponent's defense, freezing

this attack would follow next

this

be used in alternating order to deal with beasts that

State had been designed to

the parts of the Serpent's frozen body scattered across the

same time, New

frozen

Moon made Frostbite more

made Piercing Cold more

made New Moon more

was a positive feedback

couldn't absorb these parts for more

desperate, and it decided to sacrifice the

BOOOOOOM!

for an instant and exploded into

seen that move coming,

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

of lightning scattered across the horizon,

the power was very dispersed, and

Mana had already

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

passed, Shang saw