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

wind had

Light Mana on

the mass in the surroundings, making the surrounding space

wind didn't have enough power to move that much, and since it had only been pushed by its own momentum, the

actually pushed the wind

was just Wind

but he didn't use

Wind Mana vanished, Shang

all the wind gone, Shang finally regained full control over his body, increasing his

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Step

expected something like

a Mage very quickly, it transformed into a battle

an additional 10%

battles against powerful Mages inside his inner world, and

two more uses of Mana Step and

the middle at the very top, at the edge of the

she looked

took a deep

unreal amount of

Cindy had access

saw that, he knew that Cindy wasn't planning on

Shang once, but she hadn't managed

she had already used several

this, there was a very real chance

she wouldn't win in

she had to

was planning on doing

lightly touched her

SHING!

vanished and reappeared at

used Mana Step on

as the Focus arrived, a fiery red wave shot

extremely dense wave of Fire

Shang felt the properties of this wave, he

never seen anything like

couldn't be anything good, but before he could do

ice from

of fire

met

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

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

filled the bottom half of

Shang didn't move or do

wave of fire seemed to encompass Shang

it wasn't doing anything

of space inside Shang was filled with this

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

Fire Mana was

could be compared to the effect