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

wind

Mana into Light Mana

that, he released the mass in the surroundings, making the

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

that actually pushed the

just Wind Mana being Wind

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

Mana vanished, Shang shot at

control over his body, increasing his agility to its

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Step just before Shang

had expected something like

quickly, it transformed into a

was an additional 10% to 20% of Mana wasted by

of battles against powerful Mages inside his inner

uses of Mana Step and Cindy would be critically

arena on ground level, and Cindy had appeared in the middle at the very top, at the edge of the barrier

several kilometers high, she looked at Shang with a

took

Shang felt an unreal amount of Mana gathering around

difficult to believe that Cindy had access to that much

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

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

of that, she had already used several Spells

like this, there was a very

felt that she wouldn't win

of that, she had to end

planning

touched

SHING!

vanished and reappeared at the

had used Mana Step on

soon as the Focus arrived, a fiery red

dense wave of Fire

properties of this wave,

never seen anything

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

ice from

fire from

they met in the

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

as an intense white wall appeared in the place

filled the bottom half of the arena and completely

didn't move

of fire seemed to encompass Shang like water, filling his

wasn't doing anything

Shang was filled with this kind of Fire Mana,

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

Fire Mana was not truly Fire

effect of mass Shang had released with his Light