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.

was like he was leaving his old body behind

connect with each other. They didn't

more powerful, and at

the same level as they were

someone needed to hold so many things that they would need three

Shang had already

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

Path and willed it to take

that happened, the different strands of Mana

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

slowly created something that looked like

connect to each other, and when they were done,

more Mana entered

the surrounding Mana

Mana entered Shang's

more time passed, Shang's body began to shine in a blue

inside his body felt like a steady wind. It was

he was at his limit, but he had already learned how

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

like Shang was forcing himself to eat more and more,

of spitting out the

Shang's expression didn't even

had gone through so much pain in his life that this little bit of discomfort

more and more Mana inside his body until he felt

had reached Mana

Shang took a deep

willed all of the strings of Mana inside his body

far wider in the past minutes, and

do that, he basically wouldn't be able to move

the floor for

his soul and body were cramping, but this was an expected effect that

a warrior couldn't even deal with this bit of discomfort, they

of Mana became

pressure inside his body climb to new

he was compressing air

continued in a

Mana compressed to only half of its

hour later, it halved its

that point, Shang felt like he

he couldn't compress it

is the moment,' he thought with a bit of excitement. Who wouldn't