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

wind

Mana into Light Mana

the mass in the surroundings,

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

nothing that actually pushed the wind

was just Wind Mana

he didn't use any life

soon as the Wind Mana vanished,

Shang finally regained full control over

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Step just before Shang

expected something

Mage very quickly, it transformed

was an additional 10% to 20% of Mana

battles against powerful Mages inside his inner world,

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

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

she looked

took

that moment, Shang felt an unreal amount of Mana gathering

believe that Cindy had access to that much

he knew that

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

she had already used

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

that she wouldn't

she had to

was planning on

touched her

SHING!

and reappeared at

used Mana Step

a fiery red wave shot

dense wave

of this wave,

seen anything like

before he could do anything, Cindy was already unleashing an extremely dense storm

storm of ice

fire from

met

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

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

Fire Mana filled the bottom half of the arena and

move or do

to encompass Shang like water, filling his

it wasn't

inside Shang was filled with this

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

Mana was not truly Fire

to the effect