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.

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

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

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

looked at the new

the outline of his body and just a lot

draw lines, connecting all the

fingers went to the middle of the finger and then traveled down to the hand,

going through his arm, which ended in

that for his entire

And he snorted.

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

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

diagram

start here, move over to here, do

was doing in his mind as he actually started to

more and

actually do it,' Shang thought.

to easily add in additional Mana pathways. Assuming my new pathways can't incorporate all the ones for my other States, I can just

as he looked

that there is no problem with that. By now, I know that the world is very good at creating Mana pathways, and if the solution were so simple, I wouldn't have my

all, Shang also had to know how to simulate his Mana's movement before actually making the changes. Without that, Shang might

minutes, but

was not

was

body, I have

the Mana I can have

order 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

physical power, making

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

tapped his finger

tapping and noticed that he was tapping on the

remembered the image Professor Callen

huh?'

diagram and added a round energy

If any attack

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

the different Mana pathways to the Mana reservoir