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

the heat returned, and

like nothing had

interest at his finger, and he saw the new

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

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

my body. I can't do anything that goes beyond all the Mana inside my body. The Spell is essentially acting just like Darkness Mana poisoning. If

slowly and in small bursts. I can't create an entire Mana pathway with one Spell. Luckily, I don't need to create

dangerous. It's only dangerous if I get impatient or make an error during the calculations. As long as I

guess it's a bit like driving. Kind of easy, but one mistake can have devastating

down and calculated

and again, Shang performed the second

new Mana pathway appeared in Shang's right middle

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

far easier. Alright,

the

And the next one.

And the next one.

of routine, but compared to before, Shang was

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

himself to

different

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

made a mistake here, he would be blowing his own brains

of time

had been gone from the Storm

this day, Shang

took a deep breath and inspected

innumerable disconnected

the branches connecting directly to the trunk,

was essentially a mess of small tubes leading nowhere at the

specific Mana