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!

eyes of the onlookers opened in

wind had

into Light Mana on

in the surroundings, making the surrounding

power to move that much, and since it had only been pushed by its own momentum, the wind very

actually pushed the

was just Wind Mana

didn't use any life energy to heal himself

soon as the Wind Mana

full control over his

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

used Mana Step just before Shang

expected something like

very quickly, it transformed into a

Mana Step was an additional 10% to 20% of

powerful Mages inside his inner

and Cindy would be critically low

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

she looked at Shang with a

took a

unreal amount of Mana gathering around

to believe that Cindy

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

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

already used several

knew that if things continued like this, there was a very real

wouldn't

had

was planning on doing just

lightly touched

SHING!

vanished and reappeared at the

used Mana

Focus arrived, a fiery red wave shot out from

dense wave

Shang felt the properties of

never seen anything like

before he could do anything, Cindy was already

of ice from

fire from

met in

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

as an intense white wall appeared in the place the

bottom half of the arena and completely

didn't move or do

intense wave of fire seemed to encompass

wasn't doing

a lot of space inside Shang was filled with this kind of Fire

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

Fire Mana was not truly Fire

be compared to the effect of mass Shang had released with his Light