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

the wind

into Light

surroundings, making the

move that much, and since it had only been

that actually

Wind Mana being Wind

withered a bit, but he didn't

as the Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot

finally regained full control over his body, increasing his agility to its

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

used Mana Step just before Shang

expected something like

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

an additional 10%

battles against powerful Mages inside his inner world, and

of Mana Step and Cindy would be critically

had appeared in the middle at the very top, at

several kilometers high, she looked

she took

that moment, Shang felt an unreal amount of Mana gathering around

was difficult to believe that Cindy had access to that

as Shang saw that, he knew that Cindy wasn't planning on

Shang once,

she had already used several Spells and two Mana

that if things continued like this, there was a

wouldn't win in the

of that, she had

she was planning on doing

touched her

SHING!

and reappeared at

used Mana

a

dense wave of Fire

when Shang felt the properties of this

never seen anything like

he could do anything, Cindy was already unleashing an extremely dense storm of

of ice from

of fire

met in the

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

the arena as an intense white wall appeared

Mana filled the bottom half of the

move

seemed to encompass Shang

wasn't doing

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

the Concept of Subtraction, he managed to see

was

could be compared to the effect