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.

of each other

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

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

Shang looked at the new

outline of his body and just a lot

Shang started to draw lines, connecting

of his fingers went to the middle of the finger and then traveled down to the hand, where

drew a huge pathway going through his

that for his entire body

And he snorted.

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 of my speed with a fifth of my power without being able to use any

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

the diagram with all

need to start here,

stopped commenting on what he was doing in his

brows furrowed more and more as

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

other States, I can just add new ones. After all, all my current pathways are straight

as

too easy. I refuse to believe that there is no problem with that. By now, I know that the world is very good at creating Mana pathways, and if the

just his Spell. After all, Shang also had to know how to simulate his Mana's movement

Shang several minutes, but he eventually finished

was

there was

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

the Mana I can have

of about 50% of their Mana. Additionally,

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

my weakened body, the speed of my attacks would remain about the same while their power reduces by

as he tapped his finger

was actually tapping and noticed that he was tapping

the image Professor

huh?' Shang

and added a

a bad place. If

but there was a bit of space left in his neck.

Shang connected all the different Mana pathways to the Mana reservoir