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

heat returned, and the

like nothing

with interest at his finger, and he

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 of hypothermia, even though

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

the Mana inside my body. The Spell is essentially acting just like Darkness

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

dangerous. It's 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

driving. Kind of easy, but one mistake

down and

and again, Shang performed the second

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

the first time, Shang felt a bit exhausted but not tired. He felt a bit cool but not

easier.

created the

And the next one.

And the next one.

while, Shang's mind returned to its state of routine, but compared to before, Shang was still extra

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

couldn't allow himself to become complacent in

was different

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

mistake here, he would be blowing

lot of time

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

day, Shang reached his first

deep breath and

innumerable disconnected

one looked at a tree and took away the trunk and the branches connecting directly to the trunk, one

tubes leading nowhere at the edges of

Sword State specific Mana pathways