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 to

heat returned,

like nothing

with interest at his finger, and he saw the

of Mana. This small Mana pathway needed so much of my Mana that I felt

the size of this tiny Mana pathway

energy reserves of 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 all my Mana gets used up while the poisoning hasn't been resolved yet,

can't create an entire Mana pathway with one Spell. Luckily, I don't need to create

I get impatient or make an error

driving. Kind of easy,

down and calculated

checking everything, again and again, Shang performed the

in Shang's right middle finger, but

felt a bit exhausted but not tired.

easier. Alright, next

the

And the next one.

And the next one.

its state of routine, but

everything in detail, his right eye

himself to become

different from

back. He would always step

made a mistake here, he would be blowing his

of time

been gone from the Storm Kingdom, but he knew it had been a really long

this day, Shang reached

breath and

were innumerable disconnected pipes going throughout

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

of small tubes leading nowhere at the edges of

Great Sword State specific Mana pathways are