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

his finger,

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 that

as he compared the size of this tiny Mana pathway

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 gets used up while the poisoning hasn't been

an entire 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 a

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

driving. Kind of easy, but one mistake can

and calculated his

again and again,

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

first time, Shang felt a bit exhausted

far easier. Alright, next

created the next

And the next one.

And the next one.

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

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

himself to become

different from

training, Shang essentially couldn't accidentally take a step back. He would always step

he would be blowing his own brains

lot of time

no idea how long he had been gone from the Storm Kingdom, but he knew it

on this day, Shang reached his

deep breath

there were innumerable disconnected pipes going throughout

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

tubes leading nowhere at

Sword State specific Mana pathways