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!

suddenly snapped

heat returned, and the

like nothing

interest at his finger, and he saw the new

creating a new pathway consumes a tremendous amount of Mana. This small Mana pathway needed so much of my

size of this tiny Mana pathway with

anything that goes beyond all the Mana inside my body. The Spell is

with one Spell. Luckily, I don't need

if I get impatient or make an error during the calculations. As long

driving. Kind of easy, but one mistake can have

and calculated his next

and again, Shang performed the second

middle finger, but it stopped growing at the halfway

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

far easier. Alright,

the next

And the next one.

And the next one.

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

checking everything in detail, his

couldn't allow himself to become complacent in

was different from

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

he would be blowing his own brains

of

the Storm Kingdom, but he knew it

Shang reached his first

a deep breath and

innumerable disconnected pipes going throughout his

the trunk and the branches connecting directly to the trunk, one could see what Shang's body

of small tubes leading nowhere at the edges of

Great Sword State specific Mana pathways