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,

like nothing had

interest at his finger, and he saw the new Mana

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

The Spell is essentially acting just like Darkness Mana poisoning. If all my Mana gets used up while

bursts. I can't create an entire Mana pathway with one Spell. Luckily, I don't need

and of itself isn't dangerous. It's only dangerous if I get impatient or make an error during the calculations. As long as

Kind of easy, but one mistake

sat down and

everything, again and again, Shang

right middle finger, but it

time, Shang felt a bit exhausted

easier.

the

And the next one.

And the next one.

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

in detail, his right eye widened, and he forced himself to check everything

himself to

different from

Shang essentially couldn't accidentally take a step back. He

if Shang made a mistake here, he would be blowing his

lot of time

had been gone from the Storm Kingdom, but he knew

day, Shang reached his

deep breath

innumerable disconnected pipes going

branches connecting directly to the trunk, one could see what

small tubes leading

Great Sword State specific Mana pathways