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

the Fire Mana into Light Mana on the extreme end

surroundings, making the surrounding space much

much, and since it had only been pushed by its own momentum, the wind

actually pushed

just Wind Mana

but he didn't use any

Mana vanished, Shang shot at

full control over his body,

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Mana Step

expected something like

couldn't kill a Mage very quickly, it transformed into a battle of

10% to 20%

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

of Mana Step and Cindy

ground level, and Cindy had appeared in the middle at

several kilometers high, she looked at

took

that moment, Shang felt an unreal amount of Mana gathering

difficult to believe that Cindy had access to that much

knew that Cindy wasn't planning

managed to injure Shang once,

had already used several Spells and

knew that if things continued like this, there was a

wouldn't win in the long

had to end the fight

she was planning on

touched her

SHING!

at the bottom of

had used Mana

arrived, a fiery

extremely dense wave

felt the properties of this

never seen anything like

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

ice from the

wave of fire from the

they met

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

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

wave of Fire Mana filled the bottom half of the arena and

didn't move

seemed to encompass Shang like water, filling his entire

it wasn't doing

was filled with this kind of Fire Mana, but nothing was burning

he managed to see the Fire Mana's attributes early, and that

Fire Mana was not truly

to the effect of mass Shang had