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.

was using something to help

swung around a hundred times, and

CLIRRRRR!

The beautiful sound appeared.

perfectly and that it conformed to his Mana

didn't

everything worked out, but the

this attack had been created by

didn't feel

do you think?"

but I don't like it,"

"It feels wrong."

thought for a couple of

Shang put Sword away and sat

but I don't like the result. The attack doesn't feel

you," Callen said as he

Shang raised an eyebrow.

that my feelings aren't

often use Spells that are known by several Mages, but 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 that having

and it is harder to establish the fine control over Mana

that, some of the nervousness he hadn't known

a second, he had believed

is there a way to change

risky. The accuracy and number of minor adjustments necessary are shocking, expensive, and time-consuming to perform. This would be a project that continues for years, and if a mistake is made, a blueprint of how the passageway has been before the alteration has to always be at

what is the level of your

True Mage Realm,"

hummed as he

don't want to be responsible for potentially crippling one of our Kingdom's strongest assets,"

process and Spells. They might be a bit hard for an Initial True Mage to understand, but with enough

point, you can mess with your own passageways

okay with that?"

released a

a sigh of acceptance

didn't feel comfortable with giving someone else full control over his