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.

on top of each other and marked the spots where all his Mana pathways would lead

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

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

at the

the outline of his body

to draw

one of his fingers went to the middle of the finger and then traveled

through his arm, which ended in

that for his entire body and looked

And he snorted.

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

I am 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 never be able

Shang looked at the diagram with all the changes

here, move over to

Shang stopped commenting on what he was doing

brows furrowed more and more

Shang thought. 'I could actually

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 add an additional one alongside the

his chin as he looked at the

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

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 build himself into a corner with no way

but

was not

enough, there was a humongous

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

and the Mana I can have inside my body

to let go of about 50% of their

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

advantage would be that I could attack far faster and with more flexibility and diversity. But due to my weakened body, the speed of my attacks would remain about the same while their power reduces

thought as he tapped his

was actually tapping and

remembered the image Professor Callen had Shown

huh?' Shang

diagram and added a round energy

a bad place. If any attack hit his chest, he would be done

there was a bit of space left in his

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