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

as soon as anyone would get hit, the serpent would transform the Water Mana

terrifyingly cold water

of both kinds of Mana stopped

that this domain could prove to

Addum, and it began to

Then, he slashed forward.

WHOOOOM!

crescent shot

was a new

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

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

attack weaved into a combination of other attacks but its own full-scale

the storm of ice and

BANG!

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

powerful attack, but he hadn't managed to get

then, the

who had to use Shock to

several kilometers, creating

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

wasteland filled with nothing but cold and desolate death in an

of beasts had died just by being a couple of kilometers

allow himself to be hit. The sudden transformation of the Water Mana into Ice Mana was so violent that it completely

an

climate for several kilometers around just by

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

the air, almost

to fight with all my Affinities if I

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

gathered power in his legs, and the air behind his feet seemed to warp by a

of plastic was being bent by something, making the world behind it seem

BANG!

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

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 able to tell the difference between Shang's current speed and using

ice and

was a new kind of movement technique he had

gather the majority of Mana

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 to go

could actually use his

air since the power of their bodies