Sword God in a World of Magic

A humongous explosion appeared in the middle of the arena.

The powerful storm inside the arena immediately destroyed all the smoke the explosion had created, revealing Shang.

Shang's body was nearly destroyed. His entire body was filled with cracks and burns.

Shang had offset the power of the explosion by cooling his body rapidly, but that process required more control than Shang had.

If Shang cooled his body a little too much, he would completely freeze, stopping the function of his body and his mind in an instant.

So, Shang had to err on the side of heat. It was better for parts of his body to burn away than to risk his brain freezing and being unable to think or act.

The damage inside Shang's body was severe, but he immediately used his life energy to heal himself.

He could heal himself just as fast as with his old body, but every bit of life energy was just that more valuable since it wouldn't recover nearly as fast.

In past fights, Shang always managed to recover 10% to 100% of his life energy just by staying alive, giving him more opportunities to heal himself.

Now, every bit of life energy wasted was permanent.

The time Shang needed to recover even 1% of life energy would be longer than this fight would take.

On top of that, Shang's maximum level of life energy was already at only 70% due to his new body, making it even more difficult.

These were the negative effects of Shang's new body.

But it was worth it.

Having the ability to have a mind as powerful as his body was too valuable for Shang.

But for now, Shang needed to heal himself.

He used 30% of his life energy, leaving only 40%, and it would not go above 40% during this battle.

It would only go down.

DING!

At that moment, something glittered in Shang's hand.

Shang's Subsis had transformed!

Instead of being a black stick, there was now a beautiful and long icy edge on it, and even more, there were tiny red things moving into it.

Shang had defended against the explosion, but he had also used his Subsis to absorb a lot of the Fire Mana.

All the absorbed Fire Mana traveled through Shang's body, being transformed in the process.

And then, Light Mana entered Shang's Addum.

Shang slashed horizontally.

BOOOOOOOM!

The arena shook!

the onlookers

the wind had

the Fire Mana into Light Mana on the

the mass in the surroundings, making the

since it had only been pushed

was nothing that actually pushed the wind

just Wind

bit, but he didn't use any life

as the Wind Mana

all the wind gone, Shang finally regained full control over his body,

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Step just before

had expected something like

he couldn't kill a Mage very quickly, it transformed into a battle

Mana Step was an additional 10% to 20%

Mages inside his

Mana Step and Cindy would be critically

Cindy had appeared in the middle at the

high, she looked at Shang with a

took a deep

that moment, Shang felt an unreal amount of Mana gathering

difficult to believe that Cindy had access to that much

saw that, he knew that Cindy wasn't planning on having

once, but she

she had already

continued like this, there was a very real chance

wouldn't win in the long

that, she had to end the

was planning on

touched

SHING!

Focus vanished and reappeared at the bottom of the

used Mana Step on her

the Focus arrived, a fiery red wave shot out from

extremely dense wave of Fire

of this wave, he

seen anything

before he could do anything, Cindy was already

storm of ice from the

wave of fire from the

met in the

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

the arena as an intense white wall appeared in

of Fire Mana filled the bottom half of the arena and

move

seemed to encompass

wasn't

Shang and even a lot of space inside Shang was filled with this kind of

Concept of Subtraction, he managed to see the Fire Mana's attributes early, and that was exactly what shocked him so

was not truly

a way, it could be compared to the effect of mass Shang had