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

a hundred times,

CLIRRRRR!

The beautiful sound appeared.

performed the attack perfectly and that

Shang didn't

but the

attack had been created by

feel like his

think?" Shang transmitted

good, but I don't like

"It feels wrong."

thought for

put Sword away and sat down on the

the issue, but I don't like the result.

work for you," Callen said

Shang raised an eyebrow.

expected you to tell me that my feelings aren't important in that

are probably the most important," Callen added. "Us Mages 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

to develop further, and it is harder to establish the fine control over Mana you need to reliably use it. These

that, some of the nervousness he hadn't known he

second, he had believed that he was

a way to

a project that continues

Sword, what is the

Mage Realm," Shang

he fell into thought

potentially crippling one of

They might be a bit hard for an Initial True Mage to understand,

your own passageways as

be okay with

a sigh and

sigh of acceptance but one of

with giving someone else