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

released the mass in the surroundings, making the surrounding space

since it had only been pushed by its own momentum, the wind very quickly lost

nothing that actually pushed

was just Wind Mana being Wind

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

Mana vanished, Shang

the wind gone, Shang finally regained full control over his body,

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Mana Step just before Shang

expected something

a Mage very quickly, it

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

inside his inner world, and he knew exactly how to

two more uses of Mana Step and Cindy would be critically low on

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

looked at Shang with a serious

took a

Shang felt an unreal amount

Cindy had

as Shang saw that, he knew that

had managed to injure Shang once, but she

already used several Spells and two Mana

continued like this, there was a very real chance

wouldn't win in the long

that, she had to end the

planning on doing just

touched

SHING!

Focus vanished and reappeared at the bottom of the

had used Mana

Focus arrived, a

an extremely dense wave

Shang felt the properties of this

never seen anything

be anything good, but before he could do anything, Cindy was already unleashing an extremely dense

of ice

of fire from

met in

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

circular saw reverberated throughout the arena as

filled the bottom half of the arena and completely buried

didn't move

intense wave of fire seemed to encompass Shang like water,

wasn't doing anything

around Shang and even a lot of space inside Shang was filled with this kind of Fire Mana, but

managed to see the

Mana was

a way, it could be compared to the effect of mass