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

returned, and the

was like

finger, and he saw the new

consumes a tremendous amount of Mana. This small Mana pathway needed so much of my Mana that I felt like I was about

of this tiny Mana pathway with the far bigger ones he would need to

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

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 simply create

only dangerous if I get impatient or make an error

driving. Kind of easy, but one mistake

down and calculated

again, Shang performed

right middle finger, but it stopped growing at

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

easier. Alright,

created the next

And the next one.

And the next one.

state of routine, but compared to

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

couldn't allow himself to become complacent

different

training, Shang essentially couldn't accidentally take a step back. He would always

he would

of time

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

day, Shang

breath and inspected

there were innumerable

trunk and the branches connecting

small tubes leading nowhere at the edges of

State specific Mana pathways are