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

wind had

transformed the Fire Mana into Light Mana on the extreme

the mass in the surroundings, making the surrounding space much denser and

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

actually

just Wind Mana being

but he didn't

Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot at

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

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Mana Step just before

expected something like

couldn't kill a Mage very quickly, it

Step was an additional 10% to 20% of Mana wasted by

his inner world, and he knew

Mana Step and Cindy would be critically

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

looked at Shang

took a

Shang felt an unreal amount of Mana gathering

Cindy

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

to injure Shang once, but she

already used

this, there was a very real chance of her

felt that she wouldn't win in the long

that, she had to

planning

touched her

SHING!

reappeared at the

Mana Step on

arrived, a fiery red wave shot out from

dense

properties of this wave, he grew extremely

had never seen anything

but before he could do anything, Cindy was already

storm of ice

of fire from the

met in

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

as an intense white wall appeared in the place the two kinds of

bottom half of the arena and

move

encompass Shang like water, filling his

wasn't

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

Subtraction, he managed to see the

Fire Mana was

be compared to the effect of mass