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 Mana

the Serpent's attack still showed some

Moon around the two of

it had been

it was only

Shang hadn't controlled New Moon to slightly expand to let the lightning disperse into the surroundings, it would

contracted New Moon again to restore the previous

more. Even if the Serpent

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

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

would escape the

and the lightning ball moved away from Shang in an

shot

And New Moon followed!

New Moon, and it would be wherever he

Shang saw

New Moon to use a lot of its power to

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

that,

front of the Serpent's head, blocking the cold

the ball of lightning was

at the frozen part of the Serpent's

gathered on his Great Sword, and it had

again, but this time, there

only an icy and sharp pillar that

then, Shang stabbed forward, right

CRACK!

the frozen part of the Serpent's body and completely

extremely sharp but brittle ice, but

not much sharpness to the ice, but

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

And then, it exploded.

CRACK!

Serpent exploded off,

the Serpent's body as nearly half the width of

as big as the one the wave

another one

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

this attack would follow next

this

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

State had been designed to deal with the powerful

parts of the Serpent's frozen body scattered across the

the same time, New

had converted the frozen parts into

made

Piercing Cold

Piercing Cold made

was a

only drawback was that Shang couldn't absorb these

desperate, and it decided to sacrifice the entire ball

BOOOOOOM!

for an instant and exploded

Shang had already seen that move coming,

lightning had contracted, Shang had willed for all of

lightning scattered across the horizon, growing weaker and weaker

very dispersed, and there was actually nothing

Mana had already

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

wave of lightning passed, Shang saw the