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 opened in

the wind had

Fire Mana into Light

in the surroundings, making the surrounding space much denser

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

actually pushed

just Wind Mana being Wind

a bit, but he didn't

Mana vanished,

full control over his body, increasing his agility to its usual

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Step just before Shang

had expected

a Mage very quickly, it transformed into

an additional 10% to 20% of Mana wasted

had fought hundreds of battles against powerful Mages inside his inner world, and he knew

uses of Mana Step and Cindy would be critically

currently in the arena on ground level, and Cindy had appeared in the middle at

she looked at Shang with a serious

she took a

an unreal amount of Mana

that Cindy had access

soon as Shang saw that, he knew that Cindy

once, but she hadn't managed to kill

had already used

this, there was a very

wouldn't win in the

had

she was planning on

lightly touched

SHING!

and reappeared at the bottom of

had used Mana Step

Focus arrived, a fiery red wave shot

extremely dense wave

of

had never seen

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

of ice from the

of fire from

they met in the

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

arena as an intense white wall appeared in the place the two kinds of Mana

of Fire Mana filled the bottom half of the arena and completely

move or do

fire seemed to encompass Shang

wasn't doing anything

a lot of space inside Shang was filled with this kind of Fire Mana,

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

Mana was not truly

compared to the effect of mass Shang had released with his Light Affinity