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.

Shang was using something to help in his

swung around a

CLIRRRRR!

The beautiful sound appeared.

perfectly and that it conformed to his Mana

Shang didn't

worked out, but the attack just

this attack had

feel like his

you think?"

don't

"It feels wrong."

in thought for a

put Sword away and sat down on

don't like the

that won't work for you," Callen said

Shang raised an eyebrow.

expected you to tell me that my feelings aren't important in that regard," Shang

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

don't like is very hard to develop further, and it is harder to establish the

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

had believed

is there a way to

project that continues for years, and if a mistake is made,

mind the question, Duke Sword, what is

Mage

he fell into thought

responsible for potentially crippling one of our

to teach you the process and Spells. They might be a bit hard for an Initial True Mage

mess with your own passageways

be okay with that?" Callen

released a sigh and

a sigh of acceptance but

comfortable with giving someone else