Sword God in a World of Magic

After looking at his surroundings with his new Spirit Sense for a while, Shang sat down again and closed his right eye.

It was time to reach the True Path Stage.

It had been so long.

He had worked so much.

50 years of training tirelessly with unending discipline and enthusiasm.

How long would a normal talented person have taken, someone that didn't dedicate 100% of their life to their own power?

Probably over 150 years.

Maybe even over 200.

The danger of dying of old age would have been a real possibility.

But now, it was time.

Shang concentrated on his Path and willed it to become a reality.

It took several hours, but eventually, his Path began to manifest.

Shang felt a certain feeling of order enter his body, and he felt how it strengthened him.

It enveloped his entire being, and Shang felt how his connection with the world deepened.

Shang pulled this certain feeling deep into his chest and gathered it in one place. This was how the warriors reached the True Path Stage.

All the Mana in the surroundings entered Shang's body. Even the unknown kinds of Mana.

When someone elevated in power at this level, they absorbed all kinds of Mana of the surroundings to strengthen their being.

The Mana in the surrounding kilometers began to gather at Shang's place, but new Mana simply flooded the empty spaces again.

Mana was unending, and it filled the entire world.

As Shang absorbed more and more Mana, the connections of Mana he had established when he reached the Commander Stage began to strengthen even more.

The circulation of Mana inside Shang's body intensified severalfold, and he felt like he was ascending.

It was such a mysterious but empowering feeling.

like he was leaving his old body behind

Mana started to connect with each other. They didn't

powerful, and at that moment,

at the same level as they were being built. It was like there wasn't enough power to tie them

they would need three arms.

had

needed to have created their Path. Every warrior without a Path could have also reached that step, but this would be

willed it to take

different strands of Mana slowed down, but they also

of Mana began to move and extend to

slowly created something that looked like

minutes for all the strands to completely connect to

Mana entered Shang's

surrounding Mana like they were

Shang's body for several

began

the Mana inside his body felt like a steady wind. It was circulating inside it in a rapid stream, strengthening his entire

felt like he was at his limit, but he had already

feeling and began to absorb more Mana. This was necessary since the body

was like Shang was forcing himself to eat more and more, even

of spitting out the Mana

Shang's expression

in his life that this little bit of discomfort barely counted as a mere

Mana inside his body until he felt that it became impossible to absorb

had reached Mana

Shang took a

the strings of Mana inside

become far wider in the past minutes, and Shang

to move the Mana around. It was

on the floor for several minutes, his

this was an expected effect that every warrior had

discomfort, they

of Mana became thinner

inside his body climb to new

compressing air between

continued

the Mana compressed to only

later, it

that point, Shang felt like he

like he couldn't compress

a bit of excitement. Who wouldn't be excited after finally achieving their goal after 50