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."

on your body that connects to the tether is called the

tether is made up of multiple

part of your soul that connects to

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

connects your body to your soul. This is the connection responsible

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

need to absorb Mana with your mind and push that Mana into your soul, which will

primary connection, this

becomes stronger by gaining Mana via the much smaller connections, which means that you

an over-full state since it can't escape into your mind and soul as easily. That

can transform your Mana into

to solve this issue would be to repair the primary connection. Your Mana would find a way to escape into

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

if they are threatened by two kingdoms on two opposite

Shang listened intently.

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

the kingdom analogy I used, what I would be doing would be to take one of the two enemies and place them behind the other enemy. Your forces would

terms, I'm going to connect the tether

takes more effort. Additionally, the soul doesn't stop pulling Mana, which means that it will keep

the more life energy your body produces out of instinct. Your survival instincts kick in, you become awake, you become attentive, and

only happens when your life energy is at

absorbing your life energy until it reaches 70%, at

be impossible for you

feel like you're in the middle

the loss of great amounts of life energy feels like you are about to

"Forever."

Silence.