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

the wind

had transformed the Fire Mana into Light Mana on the extreme end of

released the mass in the surroundings, making the surrounding space much

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

was nothing that actually pushed the

just Wind Mana being

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

Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot

regained full control over his body,

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Step just before Shang

expected something like

Mage very quickly, it transformed into a battle of

additional 10% to 20%

against powerful Mages inside his inner world, and he knew exactly

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

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

kilometers high, she looked at

took a

Shang felt an unreal amount

Cindy had access to that

that Cindy wasn't planning on having a

Shang once, but she hadn't managed

had already used several Spells and

if things continued like this, there

she wouldn't

that, she had

she was planning on doing just

lightly touched her

SHING!

vanished and reappeared at the bottom

Mana Step

soon as the Focus arrived, a fiery red wave shot out

was an extremely dense wave of Fire

the properties of this

had never seen

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

storm of ice

of fire from the

met in the

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

akin to a powerful circular saw reverberated throughout the arena as an intense white

intense wave of Fire Mana filled the bottom

Shang didn't move

intense wave of fire seemed to encompass Shang like water,

wasn't doing

Shang was filled with this

Shang knew the Concept of Addition and the Concept of Subtraction, he managed to see the Fire

was not

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