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.

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

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

all the

at

there was the outline of his body and just a

started to draw lines, connecting all

the middle of the finger and then traveled down

pathway going through his

entire

And he snorted.

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 of my power without being able to use any Elements

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

the diagram with all

need to start here, move over

commenting on what he was doing

more and more

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

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.

scratched his chin as

By now, I know that the world is very good at creating Mana pathways, and if the solution were so simple, I wouldn't have

Callen had given Shang way more than just his Spell. 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

minutes, but he eventually finished

he was not

enough, there was a humongous

my body, I have

these humongous pathways require a lot of Mana to fill, and the Mana I

my muscles would need to let go of about 50% of their

making my body only half as

attack far faster and with more flexibility and diversity. But due to my weakened body, the speed of my attacks would remain about

as he tapped his finger on

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

image Professor Callen had

Core, huh?' Shang

and added a round energy

a bad place. If any attack hit his chest,

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

Shang connected all the different Mana pathways to