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

the wind

Mana into Light Mana on the extreme end of

he released the mass in the surroundings, making the surrounding space much denser and

have enough power to move that much, and since it had only been pushed by its own momentum, the

nothing that actually

Wind Mana

body withered a bit, but he didn't use

the Wind Mana vanished, Shang

full control over his body, increasing his

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Step just

had expected something

couldn't kill a Mage very quickly,

Mana Step was an additional 10% to 20% of

powerful Mages inside his inner world, and he knew exactly how

Step and Cindy would be critically low

level, and Cindy had appeared in the middle at the very top, at the edge

several kilometers high, she looked at Shang with

took

moment, Shang felt an unreal amount of Mana

difficult to believe that Cindy had access to that

he knew that Cindy wasn't planning on having

Shang once, but she hadn't managed

already used several Spells and two Mana

this, there was a very real

that she wouldn't

of that, she had to end

was planning on

lightly touched

SHING!

vanished and reappeared at the bottom

Mana Step on

soon as the Focus arrived, a fiery red

dense

Shang felt the properties of

never seen anything like

couldn't be anything good, but before he could do anything, Cindy was already unleashing an

ice from the

wave of fire

met

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

to a powerful circular saw reverberated throughout the arena as

the bottom half of the arena and

didn't move or do

to encompass Shang

it wasn't doing anything

lot of space inside Shang was filled with this kind of Fire Mana, but nothing was

managed to see the Fire Mana's attributes early, and that was exactly what

Mana was not truly Fire

it could be compared to the effect of mass Shang had released with