Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang didn't react in any special way to Wester's words.

"I would prefer the second way," Shang said.

Silence.

Shang couldn't see it, but Queen Primordium was looking at him with furrowed brows.

When the Custodian talked about severe pain, he was probably talking about some very serious pain, and to top it all off, Shang would have this pain for the rest of his life.

Yet, Shang didn't even ask the Custodian about the pain.

This didn't make Shang appear like someone that could resist a lot of pain but like someone that was hopelessly overestimating themselves.

However, Shang had a fivefold Spirit Sense. So, maybe he actually knew what he was talking about.

"You don't care about the pain?" Wester asked with a smile.

"It doesn't matter," Shang answered.

Silence.

The two Mage Kings waited for Shang to elaborate, but Shang had already said everything he wanted to say.

"Alright," Wester said. "Let me explain what is happening in your body right now and how we will change things."

"Your soul is connected to your body via a tether. You could look at it like a thread connecting the two things."

connects to

is made up of

connects to the

soul core is in your brain. Because of that, your mind will become more powerful

tether that connects your body to your soul. This is the connection responsible for

nearly impossible to strengthen your soul since there is simply no connection, which also means that it is nearly impossible to

your soul, which will then grow more powerful, which, in turn, will also increase the power

there is no primary

smaller connections, which means that you have to be many times more powerful to strengthen your mind just by

in an over-full state since it can't escape into your mind and soul as easily. That makes your Mana very volatile and prone to

your Mana into life energy

would be to repair the primary connection. Your Mana would find a way to escape into your soul, which would

be over-filled with Mana, making it more time-consuming to transform your Mana into life energy. You could imagine it as a kingdom waging war against one or two

put all their forces near the frontlines, ready to react in an instant, but if they are threatened by two kingdoms on two opposite borders, it takes a long while for the forces to react since

Shang listened intently.

the way that I am proposing to solve your issue would be

back to the kingdom analogy I used, what I would be doing would be to take one of the two enemies

connect the tether to your

effort. Additionally, the soul doesn't stop pulling Mana, which means that it will keep absorbing your life energy at a high

produces out of instinct. Your survival instincts kick in, you become awake, you become attentive, and your emotions go haywire. In that state, you will

this state only happens when your life energy is at about 70% of

reaches 70%, at which

for

wild, and you will feel like you're in the middle of a battle every second of

great amounts of life energy feels like you

"Forever."

Silence.