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

was like

with interest at his finger, and he

of my Mana that I felt like I was

deep breath as he compared the size of this

playing with the energy reserves of my body. I can't do anything that goes beyond all the Mana inside my body. The Spell is essentially

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

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 be a

Kind of easy, but one mistake can have devastating

sat down and calculated his next

everything, again and again, Shang

Mana pathway appeared in Shang's right middle

felt a bit exhausted but not tired. He

far easier. Alright, next

created the next

And the next one.

And the next one.

returned to its state of

checking everything in detail, his right eye widened, and he forced himself to check

couldn't allow himself to become complacent

different

accidentally take a step back. He would always

he would be blowing his own

of time

he had been gone from the Storm Kingdom, but he knew

Shang reached his first

took a deep breath and inspected all his

were innumerable disconnected

at a tree and took away the trunk and the branches connecting directly to the trunk, one could see what Shang's

essentially a mess of small tubes leading nowhere at the edges of his

Sword State specific Mana pathways