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

the Fire Mana into Light Mana on the extreme end of

in the surroundings, making the surrounding space

had only been pushed by

that actually pushed the wind

just Wind Mana

bit, but he didn't use any

Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot

Shang finally regained full control over his body, increasing his agility to its

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

used Mana Step

had expected

quickly, it transformed into a battle

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

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

two more uses of Mana Step and Cindy would be

in the middle at the very top, at

looked

took

that moment, Shang felt an unreal amount of Mana gathering

believe that Cindy had

saw that, he knew that Cindy wasn't

injure Shang once, but she

top of that, she had already used several Spells and two

if things continued like this, there was a very real chance of her

felt that she wouldn't win in

that, she had to end the

planning on doing

lightly touched

SHING!

vanished and reappeared at the bottom of

had used Mana Step on her

a fiery red wave

dense wave of Fire

properties of

had never seen anything like

he could do anything, Cindy was already

ice from

of fire from

they met in

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

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

Mana filled the bottom half of the arena

move

encompass Shang

it wasn't doing anything

Shang was filled with this kind of Fire Mana, but nothing was burning or

of Subtraction, he managed to see the Fire Mana's attributes early,

Mana was not truly Fire

the effect of mass Shang