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

returned,

like

with interest at his finger,

creating a new pathway consumes 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

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

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

bursts. I can't create an entire Mana pathway with one Spell. Luckily, I

process in and of itself isn't dangerous. It's only dangerous if I get impatient or make an error during the

it's a bit like driving. Kind of easy, but

and

again and again, Shang performed the second

right middle

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

far easier. Alright,

created the next

And the next one.

And the next one.

mind returned to its state of routine,

his right eye

himself to become complacent

different

a step back. He would

a mistake here, he would be blowing his

lot of time

idea how long he had been gone from the Storm Kingdom, but he

Shang reached his

took a deep breath and inspected all his

were innumerable disconnected pipes going

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

essentially a mess of small tubes leading

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