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.

each other and marked the spots where all his Mana

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

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

at

there was the outline of his body and just

Shang started to draw

fingers went to the middle of the finger and

Shang drew a huge pathway going through his arm,

for his entire body and looked

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

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

diagram with all the

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

while, Shang stopped commenting on what he was doing in his mind as

and

Shang thought. 'I could actually

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

his chin as

I know that the world is very good at creating Mana pathways, and if the solution were so

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

but he eventually

was not

enough, there was a humongous

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

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

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

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

flexibility and diversity. But due to my weakened body,

he tapped his finger on one

a while, Shang looked at where he was actually tapping and noticed that he was tapping on

image

huh?' Shang

diagram and added

If any

There was no more space inside of his head, but there was a bit of space left in his neck. Additionally, if he got hit there, he would die

pathways to the