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

the wind had

transformed the Fire Mana into Light Mana on the extreme

in the surroundings, making

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

that actually pushed

was just Wind

a bit, but he didn't use

Mana vanished, Shang shot at Cindy

all the wind gone, Shang finally regained full control over his body, increasing his agility to its usual

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Mana Step just before

expected something

a Mage very quickly, it transformed into a battle of

additional 10%

his inner world, and he knew exactly how to

Step and Cindy

and Cindy had appeared in the middle at the very top, at the edge of the

she looked at Shang with a

took a deep

an unreal

to believe that Cindy had

he knew that Cindy wasn't planning

once, but she hadn't managed to

she had already used several Spells and

this, there was a very real chance

felt that she wouldn't win in the

of that, she had to end the fight

she was planning on doing just

touched

SHING!

reappeared at the

had used Mana Step on

as the Focus arrived, a fiery red wave shot out from

an extremely dense wave of

the properties of this wave, he grew

never seen

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

of ice

of fire

met in the

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

to a powerful circular saw reverberated throughout the arena as an intense white wall

Mana filled the bottom half of the arena and

move or do

to encompass Shang like water, filling his

it wasn't

Shang and even a lot of space inside Shang was filled with this kind of Fire Mana, but nothing was burning

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

Fire Mana was

it could be compared to the effect