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

wind

Fire Mana into Light Mana on 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 very quickly lost its

nothing that actually

was just Wind Mana

he didn't use any life

the Wind Mana

gone, Shang finally regained full control over his body, increasing his agility

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

used Mana Step just before Shang

expected something like

a Mage very quickly, it

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

Mages inside his inner world, and he knew

of Mana Step and Cindy would be critically low

Cindy had appeared in the middle at the very top, at the edge of the barrier surrounding

high, she looked at Shang with a

took a deep

felt an unreal amount

believe that Cindy had access to that much

he knew that Cindy wasn't

once, but she hadn't

of that, she had already used several Spells and

like this, there was a very real chance of her

she wouldn't

of that, she had to end the fight

was planning on

lightly touched her

SHING!

vanished and reappeared at

Mana Step

soon as the Focus arrived, a fiery red

dense wave

felt the properties of this wave, he

had never seen

be anything good, but before he could do anything,

of ice from the

fire from

met in the

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

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

Mana filled the bottom half of the

didn't move or

of fire seemed to encompass Shang

it wasn't doing anything

of space inside Shang was filled with

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

Mana was

way, it could be compared to the effect of mass Shang had released with his Light