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!

of the onlookers opened

the wind

into Light Mana on the extreme

released the mass in the surroundings, making the

had only been

actually

just Wind Mana

didn't use

Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot

the wind gone, Shang finally regained full control

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Mana Step just before

had expected

a Mage very quickly, it

use of Mana Step was an additional 10% to

inside his inner world, and he knew exactly how to

Step and Cindy would

the arena on ground level, and Cindy had appeared in the middle at the very top, at the edge of the barrier surrounding the

looked at

she took

Shang felt an unreal amount of Mana gathering around

difficult to believe that Cindy

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

once, but she hadn't

top of that, she had already used

that if things continued like this, there was

she wouldn't win

that, she had to end the fight

she was planning

touched her

SHING!

Focus vanished and reappeared at

used Mana Step

arrived, a fiery red wave

dense wave of Fire

the properties of this wave, he grew

never seen

good, but before he could do anything, Cindy was

storm of ice

wave of fire from

met

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

a powerful circular saw reverberated throughout the arena as an intense white wall appeared in

filled the bottom half of the arena and completely buried

move

seemed to encompass Shang like water, filling his entire

it wasn't doing anything

Shang was filled with

to

Fire Mana was not truly Fire

the effect