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,

like nothing

with interest at his finger,

much of my Mana that I felt like I was about to die of

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

the Mana inside my body. The Spell is essentially

I have to 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

process in and 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

like driving. Kind of easy, but

and

everything, again and again, Shang performed the

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

a bit exhausted but not tired. He felt a bit cool

far easier.

created the next Mana

And the next one.

And the next one.

state of routine, but compared to before, Shang was

his

to become complacent

was different from

step back. He would always step forward,

if Shang made a mistake here, he would

lot of

had no idea how long he had been gone from the

Shang reached

took a deep breath and

moment, there were innumerable disconnected pipes going throughout his

and took away the trunk and the branches connecting directly

essentially a mess of small tubes leading nowhere

specific Mana