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

the wind

Fire Mana into Light Mana on

in the surroundings, making the surrounding space much denser

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

actually

was just Wind Mana being

bit, but he didn't

Mana vanished, Shang shot at Cindy

gone, Shang finally regained full control over his body, increasing his

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

used Mana Step

had expected something

he couldn't kill a Mage very quickly,

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

of battles against powerful Mages inside his inner world, and

of Mana Step and Cindy would be

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

several kilometers high, she looked at Shang

took a deep

felt an unreal amount of Mana gathering around

to believe that Cindy had access

soon as Shang saw that, he knew that

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

she had already

there was a very real chance of her

felt that she wouldn't

of that, she had to end the fight

she was planning on doing just

lightly touched

SHING!

vanished and reappeared at the bottom of

had used Mana

soon as the Focus arrived, a

an extremely dense wave

properties of this wave, he

never seen

be anything good, but before he could do anything, Cindy was already unleashing

storm of ice from the

wave of fire from

met in

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

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

Fire Mana filled the bottom half of

Shang didn't move or

wave of fire seemed to encompass Shang like water,

wasn't doing

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

was not truly Fire

effect of mass Shang had released with