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.

couldn't easily change its form, but water could. The serpent could summon a chaotic storm of water, which changed its shape continuously while also taking up much

the serpent would

terrifyingly cold water was between

was far below freezing, but the serpent's control of both kinds

this domain could

and it began to

Then, he slashed forward.

WHOOOOM!

burning crescent shot out of Shang's

new variant of Hidden

Saber State, but with the Addum's greater size, such an attack

the Concept of Addition together with the World Connection, Shang managed to gather more Mana

no longer a simple attack weaved into a combination of other

hit the storm of ice

BANG!

huge amount of steam appeared in the surroundings, but the

he hadn't managed to get

the

right at Shang, who had to use

for several kilometers, creating a

water touched anything, be it plant, beast, ground, metal, or whatever, it froze over in

serpent had created an icy wasteland filled with nothing but cold

number of beasts had died just by being

be hit. The sudden transformation of the Water Mana into

the power of an Ancestral Beast, a Zone

climate for several

Shocks. If I keep using them just to dodge attacks, I will lose

air, almost

my Affinities if I want to

but there shouldn't be anyone watching me

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

almost like a transparent sheet of plastic was being bent

BANG!

world behind Shang seemed to

his entire body was hidden behind a chaotic storm of ice and fire. Shang was so fast

into a comet of ice and fire as

new kind of movement technique he had

gather the majority of Mana in the surroundings

now, Shang had gathered 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 waves that seemed

could actually use his physical body to move forward in

exclusively fought in the air since the power of their