Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang was looking at the diagram with a bloodshot eye as he gripped his hair tight with his hands.

He was stressed.

There were so many changes that needed to be made across all the different pathways that it would essentially revert half of the changes that had been made previously.

There were so many issues that needed to be resolved, and Shang hadn't even reached the shared Mana pathways yet.

Things would only get worse from now on.

Now, Shang truly knew how incredible the Mana pathways actually were.

Sure, they weren't perfect, but they were good enough for everything.

By just changing one tiny thing, Shang had made several attacks straight-up impossible to use.

Shang had been looking at the diagram for hours now, trying to find a way to solve the current issue.

However, he was reaching his limit.

He fixed stuff here and there, but there were simply too many changes across the entire thing, and the new pathways felt completely different from the old ones.

It was like the architectural style of these pathways completely differed from the natural one of his original pathways.

After a while, Shang got distracted.

He felt like it was becoming impossible, and his mind was trying to think of a different solution.

Shang looked at the old and new diagrams again and again.

He looked back and forth.

Right now, Shang wasn't exactly thinking about anything in particular. He was just looking at stuff.

Then, Shang looked at the outer pathways, which looked a bit more orderly and straighter than the natural ones.

Shang looked where they led and scratched the top of his head.

After that, he took out a completely new diagram and began to draw the outline of his body.

on top of each other

Shang could see thousands upon thousands of individual small points on the diagram. Luckily, the magical

normal human would have huge issues with seeing all the individual points,

at the

outline of his

started to draw

to the middle of the finger and

Shang drew a huge pathway going through his arm, which ended in his

for his entire body and looked at

And he snorted.

would essentially need to completely recreate all my Mana pathways. Even more, during the lengthy process, I would be mostly helpless. I would only be able to move at like

the boost from the advancement. If I change all the Mana pathways, I might lose access to some of them permanently. It takes a lot of Mana to change a Mana pathway, and if I lose access to too many of them, I might never be able to gather enough Mana to establish

diagram with all the changes

need to start here,

on what he was doing in his mind as

and more as he

do it,' Shang thought. 'I could actually

have designed all of this allows me to easily add in additional Mana pathways. Assuming my new pathways can't incorporate all the ones for my other States, I can just add new ones. After all, all my current pathways are straight like pipes, and it's not a problem to just add an additional

his chin as

that the world is very good at creating Mana pathways, and if the solution were so simple, I

Shang way more than just his Spell. After all, Shang also had to know how to simulate his Mana's movement before actually

took Shang several minutes, but

was not

there was

in my body, I have to create central

Mana to fill, and the Mana I can have inside my body

let go of about 50% of their

all, I would lose about 50% of my physical power, making my body only half as powerful as

diversity. But due to my weakened

thought as he tapped his finger

a while, Shang looked at where he was actually tapping and noticed that he was

the image Professor Callen

huh?'

the diagram and added a round

that this was a bad place. If any attack hit his chest,

there was a bit of space left in his neck. Additionally, if he got hit there,

the different Mana pathways