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 opened in

wind had

had transformed the Fire Mana into Light Mana

in the surroundings, making the surrounding space much denser and

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

actually

Wind Mana

body withered a bit, but he didn't use any life energy to

as the Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot at Cindy

regained full control over his body, increasing his agility to

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Step just before

expected

he couldn't kill a Mage very quickly, it transformed into a battle of

an additional 10%

powerful Mages inside his inner world, and

Mana Step and

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

high, she looked at Shang with a

took

Shang felt an unreal amount

Cindy had access to

as Shang saw that, he knew that Cindy wasn't planning on having a

injure Shang once,

had already used several Spells and two

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

that she wouldn't

that, she had to

she was planning

lightly touched her

SHING!

reappeared at the

Mana Step on

soon as the Focus arrived, a fiery red wave shot

extremely dense wave of

properties of this wave, he grew

had never seen anything like

couldn't be anything good, but before he could do anything, Cindy was

of ice from

fire from

met

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

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

didn't move or do

seemed to encompass Shang like water, filling his

wasn't doing anything

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

he managed to see the Fire Mana's attributes early, and that was exactly

Mana was

compared to the effect of