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.

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

upon thousands of individual small points on the diagram. Luckily, the magical paper could draw new stuff with terrifying accuracy. It was almost like a computer

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

Shang looked at

of his body and just a

Shang started to draw lines, connecting all

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

drew a huge pathway going through his arm, which ended

for his entire body and looked at

And he snorted.

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

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,

Shang looked at the diagram with all

to start here, move over to here, do it

stopped commenting on what he was doing

more and

Shang thought.

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 just add new ones. After all, all my current pathways are straight like pipes, and it's

his chin as he

there is no problem with that. By now, I know that the world is very good at creating

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

but he eventually

was

enough, there was a humongous

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

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

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

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

be that I could attack far faster and with more flexibility and diversity. But due to my

as he tapped his

tapping and noticed that he was tapping on the middle of

Shang remembered the image Professor Callen had Shown

Core, huh?'

the diagram and added a round energy

was a bad place. If any attack

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

connected all the different Mana pathways