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

around a hundred times, and

CLIRRRRR!

The beautiful sound appeared.

that Shang had performed the attack perfectly and that it conformed to his

didn't

everything worked out, but the attack

attack had been

didn't feel like

think?" Shang

good, but I don't like it," Sword

"It feels wrong."

remained in thought for a couple

put Sword away and

I don't like the result.

won't work for you," Callen said as he

Shang raised an eyebrow.

to tell me that my feelings aren't

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 these feelings is a tremendous

harder to establish the fine control over Mana you need to reliably use

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

just a second, he had believed that he was being

way to change my pathways?" Shang

a project that continues for years, and if a mistake is made, a blueprint of how the

the question, Duke Sword, what is the level

Mage Realm," Shang

he fell into thought

want to be responsible for potentially crippling

a bit hard

mess with your own passageways as much as you

okay

released a

not a sigh of acceptance but

comfortable with giving someone else