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.

top of each other and marked the spots where all his

of individual small points on the diagram. Luckily, the magical paper could draw new stuff with

with seeing all the individual points, but

at the new

there was the outline of his body and just a lot of

that, Shang started to draw lines, connecting

the finger and then traveled down to the hand, where all the pathways

drew a huge pathway going through his arm, which ended in

his entire body and looked

And he snorted.

essentially need to completely recreate all my Mana pathways. Even more, during the lengthy process, I would be

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

looked at the diagram with all

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

stopped commenting on what he was doing in his mind as he

brows furrowed more and more

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

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 the currently existing

scratched his chin as he looked at the

problem with that. By now, I know that the world is very good at creating

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 changes. Without that, Shang might

minutes, but he eventually

he was not

was

my body, I have to create central pathways that are extremely wide and extremely

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

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

of my physical power, making my

flexibility and diversity. But due to my weakened body, the speed of my attacks would remain about the same while their power

his finger on one

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

Shang remembered the image Professor Callen

Core, huh?' Shang

the diagram and

bad place. If any attack

inside of his head, but there was

Shang connected all the different Mana pathways to the Mana reservoir inside his