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, which changed its shape continuously while also taking up much more

the serpent would transform the

such a stream of terrifyingly cold water

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

that this domain could

readied his Addum, and it

Then, he slashed forward.

WHOOOOM!

burning crescent shot out of

a new

rapid deployment in the Saber State, but with the Addum's greater size, such an attack wouldn't be that

Shang managed to gather more Mana into the slash while

a simple attack weaved into a combination of

Sun hit the storm

BANG!

steam appeared in the surroundings, but

but he hadn't managed

then, the

who had to use Shock to retreat to the

for several kilometers, creating

beast, ground, metal, or whatever, it froze over in

wasteland filled with nothing but cold and desolate death in an

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

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 it completely tore

an Ancestral Beast,

completely transform the climate for several kilometers

keep using them just to dodge

angled while he was in the air, almost like he

with all my Affinities if I want

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

power in his legs, and the air behind his feet

being bent

BANG!

and the world behind Shang seemed to

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

into a comet of ice and fire as the world behind him

a new kind of movement technique

Shang could gather the majority of Mana in the surroundings

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 to go through

since he could actually use his physical

the air since the power of their bodies ruined the ground below