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!

the onlookers opened

the wind had

the Fire Mana into Light Mana on the

released the mass in the surroundings, making the

wind didn't have enough power to move that much, and since it had

actually

Wind Mana being Wind

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

Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot at

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

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

used Mana Step just before Shang

had expected something

Mage very quickly, it transformed into a battle

10%

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

more uses of Mana Step and Cindy would be critically low

appeared in the middle at the very top,

several kilometers high, she looked

took a deep

that moment, Shang felt an unreal

to believe that Cindy had access

that Cindy wasn't planning on having a

managed to injure Shang once, but she hadn't

already used several Spells and

like this, there was a very

felt that she wouldn't win in

that, she had to end the fight

planning

lightly touched her

SHING!

vanished and reappeared at the

had used Mana Step

Focus arrived, a fiery red

an extremely dense

felt the properties of this wave, he

seen anything like

could do anything,

ice from

fire

met in the

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

to a powerful circular saw reverberated throughout the arena as

Mana filled the bottom half of the arena

didn't move or do

encompass Shang

it wasn't doing anything

around Shang and even a lot of space inside Shang was filled with this kind

the Concept of Subtraction, he managed to

Fire Mana was not

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