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 use all

Serpent's attack

New Moon around the two

had been

it was only one

hadn't controlled New Moon to slightly expand to let the

New Moon again to

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

Serpent's goal had to be to throw the opponent away and to get rid of the icy domain, but it had accomplished none

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

would escape the

lightning ball moved away from Shang in

shot

And New Moon followed!

core of New Moon,

moment, Shang saw

New Moon to use a lot of its power to slow down

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

of that,

of lightning quickly went in front of the Serpent's

of lightning was

arrived at the

already gathered on his Great Sword, and it had changed its

become longer again, but this time, there

an icy and sharp pillar that ended in a terrifyingly thin

stabbed forward, right at the

CRACK!

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

sharp but brittle ice, but this technique did exactly the

to the ice, but

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

And then, it exploded.

CRACK!

of the Serpent exploded off,

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

big as the one the wave of black fire

was another one of

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

attack would follow next

this attack

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

been designed to deal with the powerful defenses

frozen body scattered

the same time, New Moon

frozen parts into

Moon made Frostbite more

made Piercing Cold more

made New Moon

a positive

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

grew desperate, and it decided to

BOOOOOOM!

entire ball contracted for an instant and

already seen that move coming,

contracted, Shang had willed for all of

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

the power was very dispersed, and

Ice Mana had

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

of lightning passed, Shang saw