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

heat returned, and

was like nothing had

looked with interest at his finger, and he

needed so much of my Mana that I felt like I was about to die of hypothermia, even though that

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

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

entire Mana pathway with one Spell. Luckily, I don't need to create a full one with

and of itself isn't dangerous. It's only dangerous if I get impatient or make an error

of easy, but one mistake can have devastating

down and calculated his next

again,

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

bit exhausted but not tired. He

far easier. Alright, next

the

And the next one.

And the next one.

state of routine, but compared to before, Shang was still extra

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

allow himself to become complacent in

different

Shang essentially couldn't accidentally take a step back. He would always step forward, even if

he would be blowing his

lot of time

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

day, Shang reached his first

took a deep breath and inspected

were innumerable

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

was essentially a mess of small tubes leading nowhere at the

State specific