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 snapped to

returned, and the tiredness

like

interest at his finger, and he saw the new

of Mana. This small Mana pathway needed so much of

this tiny Mana pathway with the

do anything that goes beyond all the Mana inside my body. The Spell

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.

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 the rules and protocol, there

bit like driving. Kind of easy, but one

and calculated his

again, Shang

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

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

easier.

the next

And the next one.

And the next one.

of routine, but compared to before, Shang was

he noticed that he wasn't checking everything in detail, his right eye widened,

himself to

different

take a step back. He would always

he

lot of time

how long he had been gone from the Storm Kingdom,

on this day, Shang

deep breath and inspected all his

there were innumerable disconnected pipes going throughout

at a tree and took away the trunk and the branches connecting directly to the trunk, one could see what Shang's body looked like

essentially a mess of small tubes leading

State specific Mana