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.

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

diagram. Luckily, the magical paper could draw new stuff with terrifying accuracy. It was almost

seeing all the

at the

was the outline of his body and

to draw

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

pathway going through his arm, which ended in

his entire body and looked at

And he snorted.

if it 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

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

the diagram

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

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

more and more as

thought. 'I could actually make

all the ones for my other States, I can just add new ones. After all, all

his chin as he looked at

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

did some math inside his 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

but he eventually

was not

enough, there was

speed to every spot in my body, I

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

about 50% of their Mana. Additionally, the Mana required to actually move my

physical power, making my body only half as

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

as he tapped his

tapping and noticed that he was tapping on

Shang remembered the image Professor

Core, huh?'

diagram and

this was a bad place. If any attack hit

of his head, but there was a bit of space left in

the different Mana pathways to the