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.

old body behind and inhabiting

started to connect with each other. They didn't connect the different parts of Shang's body with each other anymore

willed them to become even more powerful,

were

many things that they would need three arms. Shang simply

had already expected

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

his Path and willed it to

that happened, the different strands of Mana slowed

streams of Mana began to move and extend to different locations than before,

his entire body and slowly created something that looked

minutes for all the strands to completely connect to each other, and when they were done,

more Mana entered

Mana pulled at the surrounding Mana

Shang's

time passed, Shang's body began to

inside his body felt like a steady wind. It was circulating

felt like he was at his limit, but

began to absorb more Mana. This was necessary since the body didn't naturally absorb enough Mana to make

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

instinct of spitting out the Mana screamed

Shang's expression didn't

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

more and more Mana inside his body until he felt that it became impossible

body had reached Mana

took a

the strings of Mana inside his body to

far wider in the past minutes,

didn't do that, he basically wouldn't be able to move the Mana around. It was simply far too pressurized and

sitting on the floor for several minutes,

cramping, but this was an expected effect that every warrior had to go

a warrior couldn't even deal with this bit of discomfort, they didn't deserve to reach the True Path Stage

the strands of Mana became

pressure inside his body climb to

like he was compressing air between his

Shang only continued

Mana compressed to only half of its initial

later, it halved its

like he

he couldn't compress it

excitement. Who wouldn't be excited after finally achieving their goal after 50 years