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

Fire Mana into Light Mana on the extreme

released the mass in the surroundings, making the surrounding space much

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

actually pushed

Wind Mana being

but he didn't use any

Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot at

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

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Step just before Shang

had expected

couldn't kill a Mage very quickly,

10% to 20% of Mana wasted by

inside his

and Cindy would

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

kilometers high, she looked at Shang

took a deep

felt an unreal amount of Mana gathering around

difficult to believe that Cindy

that Cindy

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

top of that, she had already

there was a very real

that she wouldn't win in

she had

was planning on

touched

SHING!

vanished and reappeared at

used Mana Step on

Focus arrived, a fiery

was an extremely dense wave of Fire

the properties of this

never seen anything

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

of ice

fire from

met in the

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

powerful circular saw reverberated throughout the arena as an intense white

Mana filled the bottom

didn't move or

to encompass Shang like water,

it wasn't

was filled with this kind of

managed to see

Fire Mana was not

be compared to the effect