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.

a chaotic storm of water,

get hit, the serpent would transform the

a stream of terrifyingly cold

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

that this domain could

and it

Then, he slashed forward.

WHOOOOM!

shot out of Shang's

a new variant of

with the Addum's greater size,

managed to gather more Mana into

simple attack weaved into a combination of other attacks but

Sun hit the storm

BANG!

appeared in the surroundings, but

attack, but he hadn't

then, the

right at Shang, who

for several kilometers, creating

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

with nothing but cold and

number of beasts had died just by being a couple of kilometers within the range

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 tore anything it touched

was the power of an

for

keep using them just to dodge attacks, I

in the air, almost like he was readying himself to

my Affinities if I

present, but

power in his legs, and the air behind his

almost like a transparent sheet of plastic was being

BANG!

surroundings, and the world behind Shang seemed to vibrate as

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

ice

new kind of movement technique he had created after

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

dense Mana. Then, he used that object to catapult him forward by jumping with all his power. This made the gathered Mana behind

speed Shang achieved with that was incredible since he could actually use his physical body to move forward in the air instead of his

power of their bodies ruined the ground below them whenever they