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 in

wind had

Light

surroundings,

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

was nothing that actually pushed

just Wind Mana being Wind

but he didn't

the Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot at Cindy

control over his

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Step just before Shang

expected

kill a Mage very quickly, it

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

inside his inner

two more uses of Mana Step and Cindy would be critically

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

kilometers high, she looked at Shang

took a deep

unreal amount of Mana gathering

believe that Cindy had access

knew that

had managed to injure Shang once, but

that, she had already used several Spells and two Mana

there was a very real chance of

she wouldn't win

she had

planning

lightly touched her

SHING!

Focus vanished and reappeared at the bottom

had used Mana Step

a fiery red wave shot out from

dense wave

Shang felt the properties of this wave, he

never seen anything like

that this couldn't be anything good, but before he could do anything, Cindy was already unleashing an extremely dense storm

ice

fire from the

they met

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

circular saw reverberated throughout the arena as an intense white wall appeared in the place the two

wave of Fire Mana filled the bottom half

Shang didn't move or

encompass Shang like water, filling his

wasn't

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

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

Mana was not

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