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.

diagrams on top of each other and marked the spots

Shang could see thousands upon thousands of individual small points on the diagram. Luckily, the magical paper could draw new stuff with terrifying accuracy. It was

normal human would have huge issues with seeing all the individual points, but Shang's eyesight was

looked at

of his body and just a

draw lines, connecting

points in one of his fingers went to the middle of the finger and

pathway going through his

entire body and looked at

And he snorted.

would be that easy,' Shang thought as he threw the diagram to the side. 'I 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 a fifth of my speed with a fifth of

missing 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

Shang looked at the diagram

would need to start here, move over to here,

he was doing

more and more

thought. 'I

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 one alongside

as he looked at the

is too easy. I refuse to believe that there is no problem with that. By now, I know that the

head. Professor 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 with no way

several minutes, but he eventually

was not

was a humongous

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

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

to 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 to the greater volume that's being

about 50% of my physical power, making my body only

more flexibility and diversity. But due to my

thought as he tapped his finger on one of the

and noticed that he was tapping on the middle of the diagram's

remembered the image Professor Callen had Shown

Core, huh?' Shang

the diagram and added a

Shang realized that this was a bad place. If any attack hit his chest, he would

location to his neck. There was no more space inside of his head, but there was a bit of space left in his neck. Additionally,

Mana pathways to the Mana