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.

that no normal person could see them, but the Beast Core would be visible to

that couldn't be seen with

difficult it would have been to create this Beast Core without

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

focused on manipulating the Mana. He had never heard of anyone actively controlling the way the Mana of the world moved during a breakthrough, and he couldn't be sure

been theoretical since there hadn't been a

bit of time, even the Mana five kilometers

beings wouldn't notice the shift in Mana, but True Mages

sign of

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 a half-finished body, weakening them

first beasts became very interested

of them immediately stopped as soon as they actually saw the cave with their Spirit

in front of the cave felt

all the beasts immediately turned around and left when they saw

were always some dumb

But that didn't matter.

exactly why

a couple of attacking beasts, Shang was starting to

his entire body could store was flowing through his body

horrifying, and Shang felt his Mana pathways scream under

Shang's body, and

moment, Shang remembered his minor advancements in

had been using them to strengthen his Mana pathways. Back then, he hadn't been sure if there even was a use for that, but

would have already ruptured in multiple spots, eventually ending in Shang's Mana pathway network

buy a lot of expensive materials while spending years on repairing them. All this time, he

Shang had been careful and had actually used the minor advancements to strengthen his Mana

people had already walked down this path before Shang, everyone would have

the first, and fortunately,

to follow Shang's path, Shang could tell them what