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 snapped

the heat returned, and

was like

with interest at his finger, and he

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, even though

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

playing with the 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 Darkness Mana poisoning. If all

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

only dangerous if I get impatient or make an error during the calculations. As long as I follow the rules and protocol, there

driving. Kind of

and

again and again, Shang performed the second

Shang's right middle finger, but it stopped

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

far easier. Alright,

created the next Mana

And the next one.

And the next one.

mind returned to its state of routine, but compared to before,

wasn't checking everything in detail, his right eye

allow himself to become complacent

different

He would always step

here, he would be blowing his own

lot of time

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

on this day, Shang reached his first

deep breath and inspected

were innumerable

one looked at a tree and took away the trunk and the branches connecting directly to the trunk, one could

a mess of small tubes leading nowhere at the edges of his

specific Mana