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 to

the heat returned, and

was like nothing had

finger, and he saw the new Mana

tremendous amount of Mana. This small Mana pathway needed so much of my Mana

breath as he compared the size of this

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

one Spell. Luckily, I don't need to create a full one with a

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

driving. Kind of easy, but one

down and calculated his

and again, Shang performed the second

new Mana pathway appeared in Shang's right middle

to the first time, Shang felt a bit exhausted but not tired. He felt a bit cool

far easier.

created the next

And the next one.

And the next one.

while, Shang's mind returned to its state of routine, but compared to before, Shang was still

wasn't checking everything in detail, his right eye widened, and he forced himself to check

himself to

different from

training, Shang essentially couldn't accidentally take a step back. He would always step forward, even if some steps weren't super

if Shang made a mistake here, he would

of

the

on this day, Shang

breath and

innumerable disconnected pipes

trunk and the branches connecting directly to the trunk, one

tubes leading

specific Mana pathways