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.

but the Beast Core would be visible to others. In fact, it

something that couldn't be

and this also showed how difficult it would have been to create this Beast Core without the help of the world's Mana during

the cave shot into Shang's body and immediately got converted

manipulating the Mana. He had never heard of anyone actively controlling the way the Mana

only been theoretical since there hadn't been a

bit of time, even the Mana five

notice the shift in Mana, but True Mages and more powerful would

sign of someone breaking

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

beasts became very interested and walked

most of them immediately stopped as soon as they actually saw the

green-haired man in front of the cave

beasts immediately turned around and left when

there were always some dumb or very powerful

But that didn't matter.

was exactly why Desert

was busy defending the cave from a couple of attacking beasts, Shang

Mana than his entire body could store was flowing through his body and transforming into

on him was horrifying,

Shang's body, and the Mana was mostly moving along

that moment, Shang remembered his minor advancements in the True Path

hadn't been sure if there even was a

of his Mana pathways, they would have already ruptured in multiple spots,

lot of expensive materials while

Shang had been careful and had actually used the minor advancements to

walked down this path before Shang, everyone would have already known that it was imperative to

and fortunately, he

tell them what they needed to look out for, making it much easier