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 to

returned, and

was like nothing had

finger, and he saw the new Mana

enough, creating a new 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

Shang took a deep breath as he compared the size of this tiny Mana pathway with

Mana inside my body. The Spell is essentially acting just like Darkness Mana poisoning. If all my Mana gets

Mana pathway with one Spell. Luckily, I don't need to create a full one with a single Spell. I can

or make an

of easy, but one

down and calculated his next

everything, again and again, Shang performed the second

Shang's right middle finger, but it stopped growing

exhausted but not tired. He felt a bit cool but

far easier. Alright,

the

And the next one.

And the next one.

while, Shang's mind returned to its state of routine, but compared

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

allow himself to become complacent in

different

a step back. He would

if Shang made a mistake here, he would

lot of time

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

this day, Shang

breath and

innumerable disconnected pipes going

the branches connecting

was essentially a mess of small tubes

specific Mana