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

the wind

into Light Mana on

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

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

actually pushed the wind

Wind Mana

a bit, but he didn't use any

the Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot

Shang finally regained full control over

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Step

expected something

Mage very quickly, it

Mana Step was an additional 10% to

battles against powerful Mages inside his inner world, and he knew exactly how

Step and Cindy would be critically

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

looked

took a

moment, Shang felt an unreal amount

difficult to believe that Cindy

he knew that Cindy wasn't planning on

to injure Shang once, but she hadn't

had already used several

continued like this, there was a very real chance of

that she wouldn't win in the long

of that, she had

planning on doing just

touched

SHING!

reappeared at

had used Mana Step

a fiery red wave shot out from

an extremely dense wave of Fire

Shang felt the properties of this

had never seen

that this couldn't be anything good, but before he could do anything, Cindy was already unleashing an extremely

ice from the

of fire from the

met in the

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

extremely loud noise akin to a powerful circular saw reverberated throughout the arena as

intense wave of Fire Mana filled the bottom half of

didn't move or

intense wave of fire seemed to encompass Shang like water,

it wasn't

was filled with this kind of Fire

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

was not

could be compared to the effect of mass