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.

he put the original and new diagrams on top of each other and marked the spots where

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

with seeing all the individual points, but Shang's eyesight was

at the

outline of his body and just a lot

started to draw lines,

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

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

did that for his entire body and looked at

And he snorted.

my Mana pathways. Even more, during the lengthy process,

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

the diagram with all

here, move over to here, do

he was doing in his mind as he

brows furrowed more and

Shang thought. 'I could actually make

more, the way I have designed all of this allows me to easily add in additional Mana pathways. Assuming my new 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, and it's not a problem to just

his chin as he looked at the

that the world is very good at creating Mana pathways, and if the solution were so simple, I wouldn't

his Spell. After all, Shang also had to know how to

minutes, but he eventually finished his

he was not

was a

speed to every spot in my body, I

the Mana I can have inside

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

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

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

Shang thought as he tapped his

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

image Professor Callen had

Core, huh?' Shang

the diagram and

Shang realized that this was a bad place. If any attack hit his chest, he would be done

location to his neck. There was no more space inside of his head, but there was a bit

all the different Mana pathways to the Mana reservoir inside his