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

transformed the Fire Mana into Light Mana on the extreme

mass in the surroundings, making the surrounding space

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

nothing that actually pushed

Wind Mana

he didn't use any life energy to heal himself

soon as the Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot at

control over his body,

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Step just

had expected something like

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

additional 10% to 20% of

inside his inner world, and he

of Mana Step and Cindy would be critically

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

looked at

took

moment, Shang felt an unreal amount of Mana gathering around

that Cindy

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

managed to injure Shang once,

of that, she had already used several Spells and two Mana

knew that if things continued like this, there was a very real

she wouldn't win in the long

she had

was planning on doing just

lightly touched

SHING!

and reappeared at the bottom of

Mana Step on

as the Focus arrived, a fiery

was an extremely dense

of this wave,

seen anything like

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

storm of ice from

fire from the

they met

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

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

Fire Mana filled the bottom half of the arena and completely buried

move or do

encompass Shang like

it wasn't doing

of space inside Shang was filled with this kind of

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

Fire Mana was not truly

effect of mass Shang had released with