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

on the diagram. Luckily, the magical paper could draw new stuff with terrifying accuracy. It was almost like a computer

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

at the new

the outline of his body

Shang started to draw

to the middle of the finger and then traveled down to the hand, where all the

a huge pathway going through his arm, which ended

did that for his entire

And he snorted.

process, I would be mostly helpless. I would only be able to move at like a

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

diagram with all

here, move over to here,

was doing in his mind as

more and

thought. 'I could actually make

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 currently

his chin as

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

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

several minutes, but he

was

was

speed to every spot in my body, I have to create central

lot of Mana to fill, and the Mana I can have inside my body is finite at any

pressure 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

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

I could attack far faster and with more flexibility and diversity. But due to my weakened body,

as he tapped his finger on one

and noticed that he was tapping on the middle of the

remembered the image Professor Callen had

Core, huh?'

edited the diagram and added

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

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

connected all the different Mana pathways