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

heat returned, and the tiredness

like

looked with interest at his finger, and he saw

much of my Mana that I felt like I was

compared the size of this tiny

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 acting just like Darkness Mana poisoning. If all my Mana gets used up

one Spell. Luckily, I don't need to create a full one with a single Spell. I

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

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

down and calculated his next

again, Shang performed the

Shang's right middle finger, but it stopped growing at

a bit exhausted

easier. Alright,

the next

And the next one.

And the next one.

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

that he wasn't checking everything in detail, his

himself to become complacent in

was different from

back. He would always step

mistake here, he would be blowing his own

lot of

been gone from the Storm

day, Shang reached his first

deep breath and

innumerable disconnected pipes going throughout his

the branches connecting directly to the trunk, one

mess of small tubes leading

State specific Mana