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 onlookers opened

the wind had

the Fire Mana into Light Mana on the extreme

released the mass in the surroundings, making the surrounding space much denser and

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

was nothing that actually pushed the

Wind Mana being

didn't use any life energy to

soon as the Wind Mana vanished, Shang shot

finally regained full control over his body, increasing his

Cindy's eyes sparkled.

SHING!

Step just before

expected

kill a Mage very quickly,

an additional 10% to 20% of Mana wasted by his

had fought hundreds of battles against powerful Mages inside his inner world, and

uses of Mana Step and Cindy

had appeared in the middle at the very top,

looked at Shang

she took a deep

felt an unreal amount of Mana gathering

to believe that Cindy had access to that much

he knew that Cindy wasn't planning on

Shang once, but

top of that, she had already used several

that if things continued like this, there was a

that she wouldn't win in

that, she had

planning on doing just

touched

SHING!

at the bottom

Mana Step on

Focus arrived, a fiery red wave shot out

was an extremely dense wave of Fire

Shang felt the properties of this

seen

couldn't be anything good, but before he could do

storm of ice

of fire from the

they met

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

akin to a powerful circular saw reverberated throughout the arena as an intense white wall appeared in the place the two

wave of Fire Mana filled the bottom half of

Shang didn't move

fire seemed to encompass Shang like water,

wasn't doing anything

was filled with this kind of

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

Mana was not truly

compared to the effect of mass Shang had released with