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 in

wind had

Light Mana on the extreme end

in the surroundings,

much, and since it had only been pushed by its

that actually pushed the wind

just Wind Mana

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

Wind Mana vanished,

finally regained full control over his body, increasing

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

used Mana Step just

had expected something

very quickly, it

an additional 10% to 20% of

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

Mana Step and Cindy would

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

she looked at Shang with a serious

took a

felt an unreal

was difficult to believe that Cindy had access

that Cindy wasn't planning on having a

Shang once, but she hadn't

top of that, she had already used several Spells

there was a very real

wouldn't win in the

had to

was planning on doing just

lightly touched her

SHING!

vanished and reappeared at the bottom of

Mana

arrived, a

was an extremely dense wave of Fire

when Shang felt the properties of

had never seen anything like

he could do anything, Cindy

storm of ice from the

wave of fire from the

they met

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

powerful circular saw reverberated throughout the arena as an intense white wall appeared in

bottom half of the arena and completely

move or do

to encompass Shang like water, filling

wasn't doing

even a lot of space inside Shang was filled

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

Mana was

to the effect of mass Shang had released with his Light Affinity