Sword God in a World of Magic

And then, it started.

The long process of completely reforming his network of Mana pathways.

For now, Shang decided to keep his old network unchanged. Instead, he would add a second network connecting to the first one.

Like this, he could still use all of his attacks without having to figure out what Mana pathways he would need exactly in the future.

Then, when he understood all of his Mana pathways for all States, he would delete the old network and only use the new one.

But, for now, he would keep both.

Shang started to cast Callen's Spell. It had been several years since he had cast it the last time, and he was a bit out of practice, but it only took a couple of hours to get back into the groove.

After that, Shang started to actually change his Mana pathways.

The first time he did it, he was quite nervous. After all, one mistake could essentially cripple him permanently.

Because of that, he triple and quadruple-checked every Spell he was about to cast.

When he finished the first Spell, Shang felt a burning sensation come from his right middle finger.

At this moment, a new Mana pathway was forming inside his finger, and Shang suddenly felt like his entire body had been thrown into icy water.

Shang's right eye closed halfway.

He took deep breaths.

His shoulders sunk.

For the first time in over 60 years, Shang felt tired.

For the first time in forever, Shang wanted to sleep.

In the next couple of seconds, Shang almost stopped thinking.

SNAP!

he suddenly snapped

returned, and

was like nothing had

his finger, and he saw the

a tremendous amount of Mana. This small Mana pathway needed so much of my Mana that I felt like I was about to die of hypothermia, even though that clearly

breath as he compared the size of this tiny Mana pathway with the far bigger ones

anything that goes beyond all the Mana inside my body. The Spell is essentially acting just like Darkness Mana poisoning. If all my Mana gets used up while the poisoning hasn't been resolved yet, I will

means that I have to create the Mana pathways slowly and in small bursts. I can't create an entire Mana pathway with one Spell. Luckily, I don't need to create a

in and of itself isn't dangerous. It's only dangerous if I get impatient or make an error during the calculations. As long as I follow the rules and protocol, there won't be a

driving. Kind of easy, but one mistake can have devastating

down and calculated his next

checking everything, again and again,

new Mana pathway appeared in Shang's right middle finger,

bit exhausted but not tired. He felt a bit cool but

far easier. Alright, next

the next Mana

And the next one.

And the next one.

its state of routine, but compared to before,

detail, his right eye widened, and he forced himself

to become

was different from

accidentally take a step back. He would always step forward, even

if Shang made a mistake here, he would be

lot of time

still had no idea how long he had been gone from the Storm Kingdom, but he knew it had been a really long

Shang

took a deep breath

this moment, there were innumerable disconnected pipes going throughout his

the trunk and the branches connecting directly to

was essentially a mess of small tubes

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