Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang sat down and closed his right eye.

His Spirit Sense was fully focusing on his Mana Pathways.

Over the past years, he had performed his attacks so many times that he perfectly knew where he would move his Mana.

Right now, Shang was checking which Mana pathways he needed and which weren't in use.

Yes, there were several Mana pathways that hadn't been used even once, but that didn't mean that these Mana pathways were useless.

In fact, these Mana pathways would be used in his other three States. Not every state needed every single Mana pathway. Some of them even existed solely for a single attack.

In his Great Sword State, Shang was using around 70% of his Mana pathways.

He could theoretically create more attacks to use all his Mana pathways, but that would be a waste of time. Some Mana pathways would only be used if Shang swung his sword with one arm from his hip, which would be quite difficult to do in his Great Sword State.

After Shang checked all of his Mana pathways, he noted them down on a diagram. Luckily, there were a couple of magical artifacts that made it easy to project a picture onto a piece of paper. With Shang's wealth, these artifacts didn't cost a lot.

In just a couple of hours, Shang had created several intricately detailed diagrams of the Mana pathways inside his body.

Then, he went on to plan.

For now, he wouldn't touch the shared Mana pathways. After all, he couldn't be sure that any of his current changes wouldn't interfere with any attacks from his other States.

Redrawing fitting Mana pathways that were only used for a few attacks wasn't very difficult. Shang essentially only had to create the pathways according to a few guidelines.

But the further Shang progressed, the more difficult it got.

A lot of the pathways had to be used for several different attacks, which all had different conditions.

that some of the Mana pathways he was working on were also in use in

Mana pathways became more and more

other changes

an entire network of intricate pathways

a sharp angle when the pathway leading into you requires such an intense speed and density of Mana?! It's like you want me to create a normal roundabout on a

of the Mana, but that would needlessly lengthen the pathway, making my attack need a bit more time to truly show its effect.

could change the entrances of these two pathways so that this one leads directly into that one, but then I would

on

seconds, he only looked

thought

the core of his body led to one that needed a lot of speed, but the one Shang was looking at needed just as much

same

was already a different pathway there that

as he scratched the back of his head in frustration. 'It is literally impossible to get enough Mana to

look like in that

at

so many changes, Shang noticed a couple of interesting things with

It was very simple.

It was smooth.

equally to every part, and it

a way, it was simple

he looked at the intersection he was currently having problems

the intersection can't possibly give enough Mana to make full use of the attack.

point, Shang stood up and

he performed the

attack, he also looked at

and flowed through his pathways