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."

to the tether is called

is made up of multiple

connects to the tether

brain. Because of that, your mind will become more powerful as your soul grows more powerful and

within the tether that connects your body to your soul.

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

Mana into your soul, which will

primary connection,

case, your soul only becomes stronger by gaining Mana via the much smaller connections, which means that you have to be many times more powerful to strengthen your mind just

tradeoff is that the Mana in your body is always in an over-full state since it can't escape into your mind and soul as easily. That makes your Mana very volatile

transform your Mana into life

Your Mana would find a way to escape

over-filled with Mana, making it more time-consuming to transform your Mana into life energy. You could

but if they are threatened by

Shang listened intently.

the way that I am proposing to solve your issue would be to re-establish the primary connection, but

analogy I used, what I would be doing would be to take one of the

terms, I'm going to connect the tether to

it's possible, but it takes more effort. Additionally, the soul doesn't stop pulling Mana, which means that it will keep absorbing your life energy at

life energy your body produces out of instinct. Your survival instincts kick in, you become awake, you become attentive, and your emotions go haywire. In

only happens when your life energy is at about

will keep absorbing your life energy until it reaches 70%, at which point you

be impossible for you to calm

feel like you're in the middle

loss of great amounts of life

"Forever."

Silence.