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.

but water could. The serpent could summon a chaotic storm

hit, the serpent would

terrifyingly cold

freezing, but the serpent's control of both kinds of Mana stopped it from

this domain could prove

his Addum, and it began to

Then, he slashed forward.

WHOOOOM!

shot out of Shang's

a new variant

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

using the Concept of Addition together with the World Connection, Shang managed

a simple attack weaved into a combination of other attacks but its

Sun hit the

BANG!

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

attack, but he hadn't managed to get through the

then, the

shot right at Shang, who had to use Shock to

wall of water continued to travel for several kilometers, creating

be it plant, beast, ground, metal, or whatever,

icy wasteland filled with nothing but cold and

died just by being a couple of kilometers within the range

he couldn't possibly allow himself to be hit. The sudden transformation of the Water Mana into Ice Mana was so violent that it completely tore anything it

of an Ancestral Beast,

could completely transform the climate for several

If I keep using them just to dodge attacks, I will lose in the long

he was in the air, almost like he was readying himself

all my Affinities if I want

this with anyone present, but there shouldn't be anyone watching me right

his legs, and the air behind his feet seemed to warp

being bent by something, making the

BANG!

explosive sound reverberated throughout the surroundings, and the world behind Shang seemed to vibrate as waves rapidly

a chaotic storm of ice and fire. Shang was so fast

of ice and fire

a new kind of movement technique he

World Connection, Shang could gather the majority of Mana in the surroundings

to catapult him forward by jumping with all

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

fought in the air since the power of their bodies ruined the ground below them whenever they released some