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.

could summon a chaotic

hit, the serpent

a stream of terrifyingly cold water was between the serpent and

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

this domain could prove

Addum, and it began to burn

Then, he slashed forward.

WHOOOOM!

burning crescent shot out of Shang's

a new

Sun was optimized for rapid deployment in the Saber State, but with the Addum's greater

World Connection, Shang managed to gather more Mana

attack weaved into a

hit the storm of ice

BANG!

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

attack, but he hadn't managed to

the serpent

Shang, who had to use Shock to retreat to the

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

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

wasteland filled with nothing but cold

just by being a couple of

of the

power of an Ancestral

completely transform the climate for several

keep using them just to dodge attacks, I will lose in the long

the air, almost like he was readying

with all my Affinities if I want

present, but there shouldn't be anyone watching

in his legs, and the air

was being bent by something, making the world

BANG!

the surroundings, and the world behind Shang seemed to vibrate as

was hidden behind a chaotic storm of ice and fire. Shang was so fast that most Archmages wouldn't be able to tell

had transformed into a comet of ice and fire as the

new kind of movement technique he

Connection, Shang could gather the majority of Mana in the surroundings

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 through the

since he could actually use his

exclusively fought in the air since the power of their bodies ruined the ground below them whenever they released