Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang focused on his body as the Mana in his surroundings violently entered his body like a flood.

He began to visualize his connection with the world as he tried to pull in more and more Mana.

Eventually, Shang felt the Mana interact with his body and change things.

At that point, Shang fully concentrated on stopping whatever the Mana was planning on doing.

The world wanted to reshape his body and advance him to the next Realm, but Shang wouldn't give the world free reign again.

He knew what he wanted, and he would force the Mana in the surroundings to follow his orders.

After some time, the Mana inside Shang's body stopped moving.

When that happened, Shang felt like he was about to explode.

Earlier, the Mana had gone through his body like water through a hose, but now, Shang was essentially holding down the end of the hose while more water began to push forward.

Then, Shang recited the Spell to reshape his Mana pathways. He had already done the calculations beforehand, and he only needed to recite it.

Instead of willing his own life energy and Mana to build the Beast Core, Shang used his connection with the world to use the foreign Mana inside his body instead.

It was difficult, but the Mana eventually followed the instructions of the Spell.

All the Mana began to gather at a spot a tiny bit below where Shang's collar bones met. It wasn't exactly inside the neck, but it was still close enough. There were several reasons for that position.

First of all, Shang wanted to create the Beast Core in a place where he would die either way if he got injured there. Shang had already been injured several times in the abdomen and lower chest, and if he put it there, those hits would prove to be fatal in the future. So, might as well put the Beast Core in a place where he would die either way if he got hit.

Another reason for that position was to hide the Beast Core. If he put it inside his neck, Shang's neck would seem unnaturally big to an experienced Mage. Sure, a normal person or a weaker Mage wouldn't notice the unnatural curvature of Shang's neck since it would be very subtle, but someone very powerful might be able to see it.

All the foreign Mana inside Shang began to gather on that spot and create a Mana pathway. However, this Mana pathway was just very short and took the form of a marble with several channels leading outside.

tiny that no normal person could see them, but the Beast Core would be visible to others. In fact, it

that couldn't

humongous difference, and this also showed how difficult it would have been to

into Shang's body and immediately got

controlling the way the Mana of the world moved during a breakthrough, and he couldn't be

had only been theoretical since there hadn't been a

a bit of time, even the Mana five kilometers around the cave

but True Mages

the telltale sign of

advancement process was very enticing to many beasts and even some humans since the person or beast advancing would be at their weakest. If someone interrupted the process, the person would have to fight with

became very interested and

stopped as soon as they actually

of the

beasts immediately turned around and left when they

course, there were always some

But that didn't matter.

why Desert Storm was

was busy defending the cave from a

more Mana than his entire body could store was flowing

all this Mana put on him was horrifying, and Shang felt his

and

minor advancements in

his Mana pathways. Back then, he hadn't been sure if there even was a use for

of his Mana pathways, they would have already ruptured

lot of expensive materials

careful and had actually used the minor advancements

this path before Shang, everyone would have

fortunately, he had

what they needed to look