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.

diagrams on top of each other and marked the spots where all

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

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

looked at

there was the outline of his body and just a

started to draw lines, connecting all the

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

pathway going through his

that for his entire body

And he snorted.

my Mana pathways. Even more, during the lengthy process, I would be mostly helpless. I would

pathways, I might lose access to some of them permanently. It takes a lot of Mana to

at the diagram

would need to start here,

was doing in his mind as he actually started

brows furrowed more and more

thought. 'I

the way I have designed all of this allows me to easily add in additional Mana pathways. Assuming my new pathways can't incorporate all the ones for my other States, I can

chin as he looked at the

easy. I 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 solution were so simple,

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

took Shang several minutes, but he

he was

there was a

in my body, I

fill, and the Mana I

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

physical power, making my body only half as powerful as a

and diversity. But due to my weakened body, the speed of my attacks would remain about the

his finger on one

was actually tapping and noticed that he was tapping on the middle

remembered the image Professor

Core, huh?'

the diagram and added a

Shang realized that this was a bad place. If any attack hit his

was no more space inside of his head, but there was a bit of space left in his neck. Additionally, if he

all the different Mana pathways to