Sword God in a World of Magic

When Shang confirmed that this was the problem, Callen started to stroke his beard in thought.

"I want to alter my pathways," Shang said.

Callen's brows furrowed at that point, but he kept thinking.

"It's risky," Callen said after several seconds. "From what I've heard, the passageways form during your breakthrough, and they have essentially been created by your Path, correct?"

Shang nodded.

"This means that these Mana passageways are a natural extension of your Path. Messing with them might weaken your Path or directly make it impossible to use it in the future. It would be like you knowing the theory but not being able to put it into practice."

Shang knew what that meant.

He had created all of his techniques before he had created his Path. Back then, using his techniques had cost several times more life energy and Mana than now.

If everything returned to how it was before, Shang would only be able to use a single Shock before running out of Mana. One Anger and his body would have already atrophied to a terrifying degree.

It would essentially cripple his Battle-Strength.

This was also the reason why Callen had to undergo another Mind Read before meeting Shang.

If Callen gave Shang incorrect information on purpose, he could essentially cripple one of the Skythunder Kingdom's strongest assets.

"I would advise against changing your Mana passageways," Callen said. "Instead, I would suggest altering your techniques to fit your Mana passageways. For example, you could change this movement to be a bit more like this."

Callen gave a couple of examples of how Shang could change the movement of his Mana for different attacks while pointing at different parts of the pictures.

Shang only frowned.

Then, he stood up and pulled out his Long Sword.

Callen wasn't panicked.

Shang swung his sword a couple of times and implemented Callen's changes.

After a couple of swings, Shang's frown deepened, and he ate a Wind Blade Seed.

using something to help in his training. Every Mage

swung around a hundred times,

CLIRRRRR!

The beautiful sound appeared.

Shang had performed the attack perfectly and that it conformed

didn't like

worked out, but the attack just felt

had been

feel

do you think?" Shang transmitted

good, but I don't like

"It feels wrong."

remained in thought for a

and sat down on the

the issue, but I don't like the result. The attack doesn't feel like me,"

work for you," Callen said as he

Shang raised an eyebrow.

you to tell me that my feelings aren't important

we also all have our own Spells, Spells that we create. These Spells evoke a certain feeling of familiarity and belonging, and it has been proven several times

is very hard to develop further, and it is harder to establish the fine control over Mana you need to reliably use it. These feelings are of utmost

some of the nervousness he hadn't known he

had believed that he

to change

are shocking, expensive, and time-consuming to perform. This would be a project that continues for years, and if a mistake is

Duke Sword, what is

True Mage

as he fell

want to be responsible for potentially crippling one of our Kingdom's strongest assets," Callen

of that, I think it would be better to teach you the process and Spells. They might be a bit hard for an Initial True Mage to understand, but with enough time and dedication, you

mess with your own passageways

be okay with that?"

a

of acceptance but

someone else full control