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

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

cold water was between

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

could prove to be difficult

Addum, and it

Then, he slashed forward.

WHOOOOM!

crescent shot

was a new variant of Hidden

rapid deployment in the Saber State, but with the Addum's

of Addition together with the World Connection, Shang managed to gather more Mana into the slash while also

a simple attack weaved into a

hit the storm of

BANG!

steam appeared in the surroundings,

a powerful attack, but he hadn't managed to get through

then, the

water shot right at Shang, who

travel for several kilometers, creating a 200-meter-wide line on the

soon as the water touched anything, be it plant, beast, ground, metal, or whatever, it froze over in an instant and then broke

filled with

of beasts had died just by being a

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 anything it touched apart after

the power of an Ancestral

could completely transform the climate for several kilometers

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

the air, almost like he was readying himself to

all my Affinities

anyone present, but there shouldn't

and the air behind his feet seemed

almost like a transparent sheet of plastic was being bent by something, making the world behind it seem

BANG!

behind Shang seemed to vibrate as waves rapidly passed through

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

a comet of ice and fire as

technique he had created after obtaining

the majority of Mana in the surroundings and compress

object of dense Mana. Then, he used that object to catapult him

actually use his physical body to move forward in the air

Beasts exclusively fought in the air since the power of their bodies ruined the ground below