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

the Fire Mana into Light

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

since it had only been pushed by its own

that actually pushed the

just Wind Mana

didn't

soon as the Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot at

full control over his body, increasing his agility to its

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Mana Step

expected

Mage very quickly, it transformed into a battle of

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

Mages inside his inner world, and he knew exactly how to handle

Mana Step and Cindy

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

she looked at Shang with a

took a

moment, Shang felt an unreal

Cindy

that

managed to injure Shang once, but she hadn't managed to

had already used

there was a very real chance

that she wouldn't win in

she had to end

she was planning on

touched

SHING!

at

used Mana Step on her

soon as the Focus arrived, a

an extremely dense wave of Fire

when Shang felt the properties of this wave,

never seen

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

ice

fire

they met in the

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

powerful circular saw reverberated throughout the arena as an intense white wall appeared in the place the two kinds

bottom half of the arena and

Shang didn't move or

of fire seemed to encompass Shang like

it wasn't doing

lot of space inside Shang was filled with this kind of Fire Mana, but

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

Mana was

to the effect of mass Shang had released