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.

and he could use all

Serpent's attack still

Moon around the two of them shrunk

had been two

was only one

New Moon to slightly expand to let the

expansion, Shang contracted New Moon again to

the lightning ball had shrunk even more. Even if the Serpent tried its best, it couldn't hide

opponent away and to get rid of the icy domain, but it had accomplished none of

been useless, it decided on the

would escape

moved away from

shot

And New Moon followed!

core of New Moon, and it would be wherever he

that moment, Shang

to use a lot of its

in front of the Serpent, and it felt its head beginning

top of that, it was

ball of lightning quickly went in front of the Serpent's

the ball of lightning

instant, Shang arrived at the frozen part of the

his Great Sword, and it

become longer again, but this time, there was no emphasis

was only an icy and sharp pillar that ended

forward, right at

CRACK!

hit the frozen part of the Serpent's body

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

was not much sharpness to the

as the needle-like Sword punched through the icy exterior, all the Ice

And then, it exploded.

CRACK!

the Serpent exploded off, and the

body as nearly half the width of

the one the wave of black fire had

one of

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

this attack would follow next and completely destroy that

this attack Piercing

to be used in alternating order to deal with beasts that had

Great Sword State had been designed to deal with the powerful

scattered across the surroundings, they suddenly started

time, New

converted the frozen

made

made Piercing Cold more

made New

was a positive feedback

Shang couldn't absorb these parts for more life energy with

and it decided to

BOOOOOOM!

ball contracted for an instant and exploded into the surroundings,

move coming,

contracted, Shang had willed for all of New Moon

nova of lightning scattered across the horizon, growing weaker and weaker the further

power was very dispersed, and there was actually nothing that stopped

Mana had

by all the gathered power of New Moon, easily resisting the dispersed power of the

wave of lightning passed, Shang