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

the wind

Light Mana

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

had only been pushed by its own momentum, the wind very quickly

actually pushed the wind

just Wind

but he didn't use

Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot

control over his body, increasing

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Step just before

had expected something

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

was an additional 10% to 20% of Mana wasted

of battles against powerful Mages inside his inner world, and he knew exactly

Step and Cindy would be

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

looked

she took a deep

felt an unreal amount

was difficult to believe that Cindy

that

had managed to injure Shang once, but she hadn't managed to

of that, she had already used several

continued like this, there was a very real chance of

wouldn't win in the long

had to end the fight

she was planning on doing

touched her

SHING!

reappeared at the bottom of the

had used Mana Step

arrived, a fiery red wave shot out

dense wave of Fire

of this wave, he grew extremely

had never seen anything

could do anything, Cindy was

ice from

of fire from

they met in

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

loud noise akin to a powerful circular saw reverberated throughout the arena as an intense

of Fire Mana filled the bottom half

Shang didn't move

intense wave of fire seemed to encompass Shang

it wasn't doing anything

Shang was filled with this

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

was

could be compared to the effect of mass Shang had released