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

the wind

Light Mana on the extreme end

that, he released the mass in the surroundings,

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

nothing that actually

Wind

didn't use any life

Wind Mana

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

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Step just

had expected something

very quickly, it transformed into a

of Mana Step was an additional 10%

against powerful Mages inside his

Mana Step and Cindy would be critically

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

high, she looked at

took a deep

that moment, Shang felt an unreal amount of Mana gathering

difficult to believe that Cindy had

soon as Shang saw that, he knew that Cindy

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

she had already used several Spells and two

like this, there was

she wouldn't win in the long

she had to

planning on

lightly touched her

SHING!

at

Mana Step

soon as the Focus arrived, a fiery red wave

an extremely dense wave

felt the properties of this

never seen anything like

but before he could do

of ice from the

wave of fire from

met

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

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

of Fire Mana filled the bottom half of the arena

didn't move or do

to encompass Shang like water, filling his entire

wasn't doing

Shang was filled with

knew the Concept of Addition and the Concept of Subtraction, he managed to see the Fire Mana's attributes early, and that was exactly what shocked him so

Mana was

the effect