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

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

all the individual points, but

Shang looked at the new

his body and just a

Shang started to draw lines, connecting all the

finger

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

for his entire body and looked at

And he snorted.

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

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

Shang looked at the diagram with all the

to start here, move

Shang stopped commenting on what he was doing in his mind

more and more

Shang thought. 'I could actually

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 add an additional one

chin as he looked at

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

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

Shang several minutes, but he eventually finished his

was not

there was

to every spot in my body, I have to

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

about 50% of their Mana. Additionally, the Mana required to actually move my Mana also increases drastically due to the greater volume

making my body only

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

tapped his

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

Shang remembered the image Professor Callen

huh?'

diagram and

a bad place. If any attack hit his chest,

no more space inside of his head, but there was

Mana pathways to the Mana reservoir inside