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

the wind

into Light Mana

in the surroundings, making the surrounding space much

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

actually

just Wind Mana being

but he didn't use any

the Wind Mana

regained full control over his body, increasing

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

used Mana Step just

had expected something like

kill a Mage very quickly,

an additional 10% to 20% of Mana wasted by

battles against powerful Mages inside his inner world, and

Step and Cindy would be critically low

had appeared in the middle at

high, she looked at Shang with

she took a deep

Shang felt an unreal amount of

Cindy had access

knew that Cindy wasn't planning

to injure Shang once, but she

she had already used several Spells and two Mana

knew that if things continued like this, there was a very real chance

felt that she wouldn't

that, she had to end the fight

was planning on doing just

lightly touched

SHING!

Focus vanished and reappeared at the bottom of the

used Mana Step

the Focus arrived, a fiery

an extremely dense

when Shang felt the properties of this wave,

had never seen anything

anything good, but before he could do anything, Cindy

of ice from the

of fire from

they met in the

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

saw reverberated throughout the arena as an intense

Fire Mana filled the bottom half

move or

seemed to encompass Shang like

it wasn't doing anything

a lot of space inside Shang was filled with this kind

Concept of Addition and the Concept of Subtraction, he managed to see the Fire Mana's attributes early, and that was exactly what shocked him

Fire Mana was not

way, it could be compared to the effect