Sword God in a World of Magic

Everyone talked with each other while waiting for the next duel to begin.

They had all come here to see the warrior get stomped out like a bug, but instead, the Mage had been stomped out.

However, the people also knew that quite a bit of luck was involved in the battle. If Erel had taken the situation more seriously, he would have most likely won.

But that was the crucial word of the sentence.

Likely.

The public sentiment had shifted from certain victory to likely victory.

Sure, there had been a lot of luck, but the warrior had still moved at incredible speeds, and he even managed to destroy a Mana Shield with a single attack.

These feats were very impressive, with or without luck.

Very few of the present people were conceited people that couldn't accept that they had been wrong after having been given proof.

However, Shang's power made the following duel even more interesting to them.

They wanted to see what would happen.

"Ten minutes are up," Lucin said. "Cloud Cindy, please enter the arena."

Cindy narrowed her eyes and floated into the arena.

Her mind was stalwart and focused.

She would treat this like a genuine life-and-death battle.

Cindy summoned her Focus, which was just as impressive as Erel's Focus.

Shang still carried his Addum and Subsis.

Lucin looked at the two combatants and saw that they were ready.

"Three…"

Cindy's Focus began to catch fire.

"Two…"

began to be covered in frost, and white mist came out

"One…"

mist coming off Cindy's body floated down, curved to the side, and floated up towards her

from her Focus rose higher, curved to

"Go!"

WHOOOOOM!

Wind.

Impossibly powerful wind!

storm as the extremely cold and extremely hot air interacted with

from Cindy transformed into pure Wind Mana, and even more, the amount of Wind Mana was several times higher than

had created something that transformed all the Mana in her surroundings into Wind Mana, including

Casting. She was making use of all the Mana in her surroundings, but instead of absorbing it and using it for a Spell, she was using a Spell to manipulate the

was already more than

to use Void Casting

a true genius could come up with

her fire and Ice Mana into Wind

the will of a Spell with his Subsis, but Shang could only truly make use of Mana that was either Neutral, Fire, Ice, Light, or

of Shang's Affinities, which meant that absorbing Wind Mana would barely do anything.

would be able to absorb all kinds of Mana as soon as he truly

he didn't have that yet, which made things

impossibly powerful wall of wind hit

BOOOM!

his surroundings and used Comet, but the sheer power of the wind

90%!

Peak Archbeast, but compared to his usual speed, this was

of Shang, and an instant later, he

wind couldn't stop Shang's Ghost

second Ghost Step to arrive directly in front

SHING!

and arrived on the

around and used the direction

he was far faster than usual since the wind

genius like Cindy wouldn't overlook

prepared

WHOOOOM!

orange wall appeared in

would think that this was a space filled with peaceful