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 Mana pathways would

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

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

looked at the new

there was the outline of his

Shang started to draw lines, connecting

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

a huge pathway going through

did that for his entire body and looked

And he snorted.

threw the diagram to the side. 'I would essentially need to completely recreate all my Mana pathways. Even more, during the lengthy process, I

to some of them permanently. It takes a lot of Mana to change a Mana pathway, and

looked at the diagram with all

would need to start here,

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

furrowed more and more as he

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

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,

chin as

that there is no problem with that. By now, I know that the world is very good at creating Mana pathways, and if the solution were so simple,

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

took Shang several minutes, but he

was

enough, there was a

I have to create central pathways that are extremely wide and extremely

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

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

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

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

as he tapped his finger on one of

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

remembered the image Professor Callen had Shown

huh?'

edited the diagram and added

bad place. If any attack hit his chest, he

was no more space inside of his head, but there was a bit of space left in

connected all the different Mana pathways to