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

points on the diagram. Luckily, the magical paper could draw new stuff with terrifying accuracy. It

human would have huge issues with seeing all the individual points, but

at the new

of his body and

Shang started to draw lines, connecting all the

the individual points in one of his fingers went to the middle of the finger and then

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

for his entire body and

And he snorted.

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

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

at the diagram with all the changes

to start here, move over to here,

what he was doing

brows furrowed more and more

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

the ones for my other States, I can

his chin as he looked at

to believe that there is no problem with that. By now, I know that the world is

had given Shang way more than just his Spell. After all, Shang also had to know how to

Shang several minutes, but he

was not

enough, there was a humongous

maximum speed to every spot in my body, I have to create central pathways that are extremely

humongous pathways require a lot of Mana to fill, and the Mana I can have inside my body is finite at any given

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

my physical power, making my body only half as powerful

flexibility and diversity. But due to my weakened body, the speed of

thought as he tapped his

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

Shang remembered the image Professor

huh?'

diagram and added a round energy

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

of his head, but there was a

different Mana pathways to