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…"

to be covered in frost, and white mist

"One…"

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

same time, the flames coming from her Focus rose

"Go!"

WHOOOOOM!

Wind.

Impossibly powerful wind!

as the extremely cold and extremely

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

Mana in her surroundings into Wind Mana,

the Mana in her surroundings, but instead of absorbing it

ability alone was

had created a way to use Void Casting

could come up with something

transformed her fire and Ice Mana into Wind Mana,

will of a Spell with his Subsis, but Shang could only truly make use of

not part of Shang's Affinities, which meant that absorbing Wind Mana would barely

was only true for now. Shang estimated that he would be able to absorb all kinds of Mana as

didn't have that yet, which made things

wall

BOOOM!

solidified his surroundings and used Comet, but the sheer power of the wind slowed him by over

90%!

as fast as a Peak Archbeast, but compared to his usual speed, this

front of Shang, and an instant later, he teleported

couldn't stop Shang's

a second Ghost Step to arrive directly in front

SHING!

arrived

and used the direction of the wind to

time, he was far faster than usual

like Cindy wouldn't overlook such

prepared

WHOOOOM!

appeared in front

looked at this wall, they would think that this was a