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

wind

the Fire Mana into Light Mana on the extreme

released the mass in the surroundings, making the

and since it had only been pushed by its

was nothing that actually pushed the wind

was just Wind Mana being Wind

body withered a bit, but he didn't

soon as the Wind Mana vanished, Shang

Shang finally regained full control over

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

used Mana Step

had expected something

a Mage very quickly, it transformed into

additional 10% to 20% of

hundreds of battles against powerful Mages inside his inner world, and he knew exactly how to handle

and Cindy would be critically low

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

high, she looked at Shang

she took a

an unreal amount of Mana gathering around

Cindy

soon as Shang saw that, he knew that Cindy wasn't planning on having

Shang once, but

she had already

like this, there was a very real chance of her

felt that she wouldn't win in the long

had

was planning on

touched her

SHING!

vanished and reappeared at the bottom

used Mana Step on her

the Focus arrived, a fiery red wave

was an extremely dense wave

of this wave, he grew

had never seen

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

storm of ice

of fire from

met in the

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

throughout the arena as an intense white wall appeared in the

Fire Mana filled the bottom half of the arena and completely

Shang didn't move or do

fire seemed to encompass Shang like water,

wasn't doing anything

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

managed to

Mana was not truly

effect