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 onlookers opened

wind

the Fire Mana into Light Mana on

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

didn't have enough power to move that much, and since it had only been pushed by

actually pushed the wind

was just Wind Mana

but he didn't use any life energy to heal himself

soon as the Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot

full control over his body, increasing his agility to

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

used Mana Step

expected something like

kill a Mage very quickly, it transformed into a

an additional 10% to

his inner world, and he

Mana Step and Cindy would be critically low

the arena on ground level, and Cindy had appeared in the middle

high, she looked at

she took

Shang felt an unreal amount of Mana

to believe that Cindy had access

that

injure Shang once, but she

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

continued like this, there was a very real chance of

felt that she wouldn't

of that, she had to end the

she was planning on doing

touched her

SHING!

at

used Mana Step

Focus arrived, a fiery red wave

dense wave

when Shang felt the properties of this wave, he grew

had never seen anything like

he could do anything, Cindy was already unleashing an extremely dense storm of Ice

storm of ice from

fire

they met

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

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

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

Shang didn't move or

intense wave of fire seemed to encompass

wasn't doing

inside Shang was filled with

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

was not

to the effect of mass Shang had released with