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

the heat returned, and

was like

his finger, and

of my Mana that I felt like I was about to die of hypothermia, even though that clearly wasn't

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

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 my Mana

pathway with one Spell. Luckily, I don't need to create a full one with a single Spell. I can simply create 10% of

make an error during the

it's a bit like driving. Kind of easy, but one mistake

sat down and calculated his next

again, Shang performed the

appeared in Shang's right middle

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

easier.

the next Mana

And the next one.

And the next one.

to its state of routine,

in detail, his right eye widened, and he forced

himself to become

different

He would always step

made a mistake here, he would be blowing his

of

the Storm Kingdom, but he knew

this day, Shang reached

a deep breath and

this moment, there were innumerable disconnected

one looked at a tree and took away the trunk and the branches connecting

small tubes leading nowhere at the edges

Great Sword State specific Mana pathways are