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 onlookers

the wind had

Light Mana on the

that, he released the mass in the surroundings,

power to move that much, and since it had only been pushed by

that actually pushed the

Wind Mana being Wind

body withered a bit, but he didn't

Mana

finally regained full control over

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Step just before

had expected something like

quickly, it transformed

Step was an additional 10% to 20% of Mana

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

two more uses of Mana Step and Cindy would be critically low

was currently in the arena on ground level, and Cindy had appeared in the middle at the very

she looked

took a

moment, Shang felt an unreal amount of Mana gathering

believe that Cindy had access

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

had managed to injure Shang once, but she hadn't

of that, she had already

if things continued like this, there was

wouldn't win in

that, she had to end the

planning on doing

lightly touched her

SHING!

Focus vanished and reappeared at the bottom of

used Mana Step on

Focus arrived, a

was an extremely dense wave of Fire

Shang felt the properties of this wave, he grew extremely

had never seen anything

knew that this couldn't be anything good, but before he could do anything, Cindy was already

ice from

fire from

met in the

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

arena as an intense white wall appeared in the place the two kinds

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

move or do

seemed to encompass Shang like water, filling his

it wasn't doing

around Shang and even a lot of space inside Shang was filled

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

was not truly

way, it could be compared to the effect of mass Shang