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

the heat returned, and the tiredness

like

looked with interest at his finger, and

new pathway consumes a tremendous amount of Mana. This small Mana pathway needed so much of my Mana that I felt like I

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

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 my Mana gets used up

pathways slowly and in small 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. I can simply create 10% of a Mana pathway

I get impatient or make an error during the calculations. As long as I follow the rules and protocol, there won't be

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

sat down and calculated

and again, Shang performed

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

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

easier. Alright,

created the next

And the next one.

And the next one.

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

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

couldn't allow himself to become

was different

take a step back. He would always step forward, even if some steps

he would

lot of

no idea how long he had been gone from the

on this day, Shang reached his

breath and

innumerable disconnected pipes

and took away the trunk and the branches connecting directly to the trunk, one could see

small tubes leading nowhere at

State specific Mana pathways are