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.

form, but water could. The serpent could summon a chaotic storm of water, which changed its shape

would get hit, the serpent would transform the Water Mana into

now, such a stream of terrifyingly cold water

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

that this domain could prove to

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Then, he slashed forward.

WHOOOOM!

shot

a new

in the Saber State, but with the Addum's greater

the World Connection, Shang managed

was no longer a simple attack weaved into

Hidden Sun hit the storm of ice and

BANG!

of steam appeared in the surroundings, but the

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

the

right at Shang, who had to use Shock to retreat to the

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

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

had created an icy wasteland filled with nothing but cold and desolate death in

just by being a couple of kilometers within the range

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 it completely

an

could completely transform the climate for several

keep using them just to dodge attacks,

in the air, almost like he

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can't use this with anyone present, but there shouldn't be anyone

his legs, and the air behind his feet seemed to

of plastic was being bent

BANG!

behind Shang seemed to vibrate as waves

forward at 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

into a comet of ice and fire as the world

new kind of movement technique he had created

Connection, Shang could gather the majority of Mana

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

with that was incredible since he could actually use his physical body to

fought in the air since the power of their bodies ruined