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.

other and marked the spots where all his Mana pathways would lead

individual small points on the diagram. Luckily, the magical paper could draw new stuff with terrifying accuracy.

issues with seeing all the individual points,

looked at the

outline of his body and just a lot of

to draw lines, connecting all

of the finger and then traveled down to the hand, where all the pathways

pathway going through his

did that for his entire body and

And he snorted.

during the lengthy process, I would be mostly helpless. I would only be

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,

diagram

would need to start here, move over

he was doing

brows furrowed more and more as

could actually do it,' Shang thought. 'I could actually make this

more, the way I 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

as he looked

is no problem with that. By now, I know that the world is very good at creating Mana pathways, and if

After all, Shang also had to know how to simulate his Mana's movement before actually making the changes. Without that, Shang might build himself into a corner with no way

Shang several minutes, but he eventually

was not

was a

my body, I have to create central pathways that are

a lot of Mana to fill, and the Mana I can have inside my body is finite at any

push the pressure to what I need, my muscles would need to let go of about 50% of their Mana. Additionally, the Mana required to actually move my Mana also increases drastically due

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

could attack far faster and with more flexibility and diversity. But due to my weakened body, the speed

his

at where he was actually tapping and noticed that he was tapping on the middle of

remembered the image Professor Callen

huh?' Shang

edited the diagram and added a

was a bad place. If any attack hit his chest, he would

neck. There was no more space inside of his head, but there was a bit

all the different Mana pathways to the Mana reservoir inside his