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

Fire Mana into Light Mana

the mass in the surroundings, making the

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

was nothing that actually pushed the wind

was just Wind Mana being Wind

but he didn't use any life energy to heal himself

as the Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot

regained full control over his body, increasing

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

used Mana Step just before

had expected something like

kill a Mage very quickly, it transformed

of Mana Step was an additional 10% to 20% of Mana wasted by

his inner world, and he knew exactly how to

and Cindy would be critically low

the middle at

she looked

she took a

felt an unreal amount of Mana gathering around

that Cindy

soon as Shang saw that, he knew that Cindy

once, but

top of that, she had already

that if things continued like this, there

that she wouldn't win

of that, she had

planning on

touched her

SHING!

vanished and reappeared at the bottom

had used Mana Step

a fiery red wave shot out

an extremely dense

of this wave,

had never seen anything like

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

ice from the

wave of fire from

they met in

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

circular saw reverberated throughout the arena as an intense white wall appeared in the place the two kinds of Mana

of Fire Mana filled the bottom half

Shang didn't move or do

of fire seemed to encompass Shang like water, filling his entire

wasn't

was filled with this kind of Fire

to see the Fire Mana's attributes early, and

Mana was not

be compared to the effect of mass Shang had released with his