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.

that Shang was using something to help in his training. Every Mage did

a hundred times,

CLIRRRRR!

The beautiful sound appeared.

performed the attack perfectly

Shang didn't like

everything worked out, but the attack just felt

attack had

didn't feel like

you think?"

good, but I don't like

"It feels wrong."

remained in thought for a couple

put Sword away and sat down

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

that won't work for you," Callen said

Shang raised an eyebrow.

that my feelings aren't important in

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 belonging, and it has been

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

some of the nervousness he hadn't

second, he had believed that

way to

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

you don't mind the question, Duke Sword, what

Mage Realm,"

Callen hummed as he

want to be responsible for potentially crippling one

a bit hard for an Initial True Mage to understand, but with enough time and dedication, you should be able to

point, you can mess with your

be okay with that?" Callen

released a sigh

of acceptance

with giving someone else full control over his