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,

was like nothing

his finger, and he saw the new

a tremendous amount of Mana. This small Mana pathway needed so much of my Mana that I felt like

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

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

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

of itself isn't dangerous. It's only dangerous if I get impatient or make an error

of easy, but one mistake can

sat down and calculated his next

checking everything, again and again,

appeared in Shang's right middle finger, but it stopped growing at

bit exhausted but not tired. He

easier. Alright, next

the next Mana

And the next one.

And the next one.

of routine,

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

to become

different

accidentally take a step back. He would

mistake here, he would be blowing

lot of time

had no idea how long he had been gone from the Storm

on this day, Shang reached his first

a deep breath and inspected all

there were innumerable disconnected pipes

tree and took away the trunk and the branches connecting directly to the trunk, one

mess of small tubes leading nowhere at the

specific Mana