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!

eyes of the onlookers opened in

the wind

Light Mana

he released the mass in the surroundings, making the

and since it had only been pushed by its own momentum,

nothing that actually

was just Wind Mana being

body withered a bit, but he didn't use any life energy

soon as the Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot at Cindy

control over his body, increasing his

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

used Mana Step just before Shang

had expected something like

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

was an additional 10% to 20% of Mana wasted

hundreds of battles against powerful Mages inside his inner world, and

two more uses of Mana Step and

in the arena on ground level, and Cindy had appeared in the

high, she looked at Shang

took a

that moment, Shang felt an unreal amount of Mana

difficult to believe that Cindy had

soon as Shang saw that, he knew that Cindy wasn't

once, but she

top of that, she had already used

this, there was a

that she wouldn't win in the

she had

planning

lightly touched her

SHING!

reappeared at

had used Mana Step

a fiery red wave shot out from

extremely dense wave

when Shang felt the properties of

had never seen anything

be anything good, but before he could do anything, Cindy was already unleashing an extremely dense storm

storm of ice from the

of fire

they met in

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

as an intense white wall appeared in the place the two

bottom half of

didn't move

intense wave of fire seemed to encompass

wasn't doing anything

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

the Concept of Subtraction, he managed to see the Fire Mana's attributes early, and that

was not truly Fire

to the effect