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 to

returned, and

like

his finger, and he saw the new

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

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

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,

Spell. Luckily, I don't need to create a full one with a single Spell. I can simply create 10% of a Mana pathway

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

like driving. Kind of easy,

and calculated his

again and again, Shang

right middle finger, but it stopped growing at the

exhausted but not tired. He felt a bit cool

easier. Alright,

created the next Mana

And the next one.

And the next one.

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

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

to become complacent in

different

back. He would always step forward, even if

made a mistake here, he

lot of time

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

day, Shang

took a deep breath and inspected all his

there were innumerable disconnected pipes going throughout

away the trunk and the branches connecting directly to the

a mess of small tubes leading nowhere at the

Sword State specific Mana