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

wind had

into Light Mana on the extreme

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

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

was nothing that actually pushed the

just Wind Mana being Wind

he didn't

Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot at

the wind gone, Shang finally regained full control over his body, increasing his agility to its

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

used Mana Step just

had expected something

very quickly, it

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

Mages inside his inner world, and he

of Mana Step and Cindy would be critically low on

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

she looked at Shang with

she took

felt an unreal amount

difficult to believe that Cindy had access

soon as Shang saw that, he knew that Cindy

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

already used several Spells and two Mana

this, there was

that she wouldn't win in the long

that, she had to end

planning

touched her

SHING!

at the bottom

Mana Step

soon as the Focus arrived, a fiery red wave shot out

dense wave

felt the properties of this

seen anything

this couldn't be anything good, but before he could do anything, Cindy was already unleashing an extremely

storm of ice from

fire from

they met in

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

powerful circular saw reverberated throughout the arena as an intense white wall appeared

of Fire Mana filled the bottom half of the

Shang didn't move or do

of fire seemed to encompass Shang like

it wasn't doing

was filled with this kind of Fire

of Subtraction, he managed to see the

Fire Mana was not truly

compared to the effect