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

the heat returned, and

was like nothing

his finger,

a new 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,

compared the size of this tiny Mana pathway with the

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

pathway with one Spell. Luckily, I don't need to

I get impatient or make an error

Kind of easy, but one mistake can

down and

again and again, Shang performed the second

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

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

easier. Alright, next

the

And the next one.

And the next one.

returned to its state of routine, but compared to before, Shang was

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

couldn't allow himself to

different from

step back. He would always step forward, even if

Shang made a mistake here, he would be blowing

of

still had no idea how long he had been gone from the Storm Kingdom, but he knew it had been a really long

day, Shang

breath

moment, there were innumerable disconnected pipes going throughout his

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

mess of small tubes leading

specific