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.

and new diagrams on top of each other and marked the spots where

small points on the diagram. Luckily, the magical paper

have huge issues with seeing all the individual points,

at the new

his body

that, Shang started to draw lines, connecting all the

of his fingers went to the middle of the finger and then traveled down to the

a huge pathway going through his

that for his entire

And he snorted.

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 a fifth of my speed with a fifth

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

diagram with

I would need to start here, move over to here,

commenting on what he was doing in his mind as he actually started

furrowed more and more

thought. 'I could

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

as

know that the world is very good at

know how to simulate his Mana's movement before actually making the changes. Without that, Shang might build himself into a corner

several minutes, but

was not

enough, there was

maximum speed to every spot in my body, I have to create central pathways that are

pathways require a lot of Mana to fill, and the Mana I can have inside my body

I need, my muscles would need to let go of about 50% of their Mana. Additionally, the Mana required to actually move my

of my physical power, making my body only half as powerful as a beast

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

his finger on one of

and noticed

image Professor Callen

Core, huh?'

diagram and added a round energy

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

no more space inside of his head, but there was a bit of space left in

Mana pathways to the Mana reservoir inside