Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang slashed toward the serpent.

CRK! CRK! CRK!

Yet, an instant later, powerful icicles shot out of the serpent's body, and Shang's sword broke through them.

CRACK!

Suddenly, a wall of spiky icicles shot toward Shang, but Shang managed to finish his slash.

CRACK!

The wall broke apart, but no blood appeared.

Suddenly, the world around Shang started to change.

Black clouds gathered, and water seemingly exploded out of the sky in a torrential downpour.

Some isolated bolts of lightning illuminated the surroundings, which had suddenly turned dark.

As soon as the drops of water reached a certain distance, they transformed into terrifying icicles that seemed to break through anything they touched.

At the moment, the serpent was several kilometers away from Shang.

It had created a tyrannical armor made of icicles, transforming its exterior into a rough and jagged meatgrinder.

One small part of its body had no icicles on it, which was the part that Shang had tried to attack.

Earlier, the serpent had just exploded that piece of icy armor off its body and shot it right toward Shang.

Shang knew that this move could prove to be a problem in the fight.

The serpent gathered its power, but Shang wouldn't give it the time to fully prepare itself and shot forward again with another Shock.

Yet, just when Shang arrived, he felt the pressure in his surroundings intensify.

The air around him became frighteningly cold, and the serpent opened its maw.

A moment later, a terrifyingly cold stream of Ice and Water Mana exited its maw, and it began to circle the serpent's body.

Shang had to stop his advance at that point since the stream had created a domain of absolute cold, and the added Water Mana made it even worse.

Usually, a Dual-Affinity of Ice and Water wouldn't seem very dangerous, but that couldn't be further from the truth.

summon a chaotic storm of water, which changed its shape continuously while also

as soon as anyone would get hit, the serpent would transform the

cold

control of both

domain could

his Addum, and it began to

Then, he slashed forward.

WHOOOOM!

burning crescent shot out of

a new variant

optimized for rapid deployment in the Saber State, but with the Addum's greater size, such

Addition together with the World Connection, Shang managed to gather more Mana into the slash while

no longer a simple attack weaved into a combination

the

BANG!

amount of steam appeared in the surroundings, but the stream of

attack, but he hadn't managed to get through

then, the serpent

shot right at Shang, who

wall of water continued to travel for several kilometers, creating a 200-meter-wide

it plant, beast, ground, metal, or whatever, it froze over in an instant and then broke

with nothing but

died just by being a couple of kilometers within the

seeing that attack, Shang knew that he couldn't possibly allow himself to be hit. The sudden transformation of the Water Mana into Ice Mana was so violent that

of an Ancestral Beast, a Zone

completely transform the climate for several

already used two Shocks. If I keep using them just to

in the air, almost

all my Affinities

anyone present, but there shouldn't be

air behind

transparent sheet of plastic was being bent by something, making the world behind it seem

BANG!

sound reverberated throughout the surroundings, and the world behind Shang seemed

unreal speeds, and just a moment later, his entire body was hidden behind a chaotic storm of ice and fire. Shang was so fast that most Archmages wouldn't be able to tell the difference between Shang's current speed

ice and fire as the world behind

a new kind of movement technique he had

the majority of

a huge amount of Mana and had compressed it behind him, creating a solid object of dense Mana. Then, he used that object to catapult him forward by jumping with all his power. This made the gathered Mana behind him vibrate and scatter, creating these

actually use his physical body to move forward in the air instead of

power of their bodies ruined the ground below