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

into Light Mana on

that, he released the mass in the surroundings, making the surrounding space

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

that actually pushed the

just Wind Mana being Wind

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

soon as the Wind Mana vanished, Shang

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

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

used Mana Step just before Shang

expected

very quickly, it transformed into a battle of

use of Mana Step was an additional 10% to 20% of

inside his inner world,

more uses of Mana Step and Cindy would

on ground level, and Cindy had appeared in the

several kilometers high, she looked at Shang with a

she took

unreal amount of

Cindy had access to that

he knew that Cindy wasn't planning on

Shang once, but

she had already used several

this, there was a very real chance

she wouldn't win in the long

had to end the fight

was planning

touched

SHING!

and reappeared at

Mana Step on

Focus arrived, a fiery red wave shot out from

an extremely dense wave

when Shang felt the properties of this

seen

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

ice

fire from the

they met in

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

to a powerful circular saw reverberated throughout the arena as an

bottom half of the arena and completely

move or

to encompass Shang like water, filling

wasn't doing anything

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

Addition and the Concept of Subtraction, he managed to see the Fire Mana's attributes early, and that was exactly what shocked him

Fire Mana was not truly

to the effect of mass Shang had released