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

the wind had

transformed the Fire Mana into Light Mana on the

mass in the surroundings, making the surrounding

have enough power to move that much, and since it had only been pushed

nothing that actually pushed the wind

Wind Mana being Wind

a bit, but he didn't

Mana vanished,

regained full control over his body, increasing his agility

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Mana Step just before Shang

expected

kill a Mage very quickly, it

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

powerful Mages inside his inner world,

of Mana Step and Cindy would be

appeared in the middle at the very top, at

several kilometers high, she looked at Shang with

took a

that moment, Shang felt an unreal amount of Mana

to believe that Cindy

saw that, he knew that Cindy wasn't planning on having a drawn-out

once, but she hadn't

had already used several Spells

like this, there was a very real chance of

felt that she wouldn't win in the

of that, she had to end the fight

was planning on

touched

SHING!

and reappeared at

had used Mana Step on

the Focus arrived, a

dense wave of Fire

when Shang felt the properties of this wave, he

had never seen

could do anything,

ice

of fire from

met in

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

as an intense

the bottom half

move or

encompass Shang like water, filling his

wasn't doing

around Shang and even a lot of space inside Shang was filled with this kind of Fire Mana, but nothing was burning

managed to see

Mana was not truly Fire

way, it could be compared to the effect