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

transformed the Fire Mana into Light Mana on

the mass in the surroundings, making the surrounding space much

and since it had only been pushed by its own momentum, the wind very

that actually pushed the

Wind Mana being

but he didn't use any life energy to heal

the Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot at Cindy

regained full control over his body, increasing

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Step

expected something like

a Mage very quickly, it transformed into

Mana Step was an additional 10% to

against powerful Mages inside his inner

Mana Step and

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

she looked at Shang with a serious

took a deep

moment, Shang felt an unreal amount

difficult to believe that Cindy had access

Shang saw that, he knew that Cindy wasn't planning on having a drawn-out

once, but she

top of that, she had already used several

if things continued like this, there was a

that she wouldn't win in the long

of that, she had to end the fight

was planning on doing just

lightly touched her

SHING!

at the bottom

had used Mana Step on

the Focus arrived, a fiery

an extremely dense wave

when Shang felt the properties of this wave, he

seen

anything good, but before he could do anything,

ice from the

wave of fire

met in

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

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

Fire Mana filled the bottom half of

didn't move

encompass Shang like water, filling

it wasn't doing anything

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

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

Fire Mana was not truly Fire

the effect of