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.

of each other and marked the spots where all his

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

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

looked at the

was the outline of his

that, Shang started to draw lines, connecting all the

middle of the finger

a huge pathway going through his arm,

for his entire body and looked

And he snorted.

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

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

at the diagram with all the

would need to start here, move over to here, do it

on what he was doing in his mind as he actually

more and more

thought. 'I

Assuming my new pathways can't incorporate all the ones for my other States, I can just add new ones. After

his chin as he looked

this is too 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, I

all, Shang also had to know how to simulate his Mana's movement before actually

Shang several minutes, but he eventually finished

was

enough, there was a humongous

spot in my body, I have to create central pathways that are extremely wide and extremely

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

push the pressure to what I need, my muscles would need to let go of about 50% of their Mana. Additionally, the

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

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

thought as he tapped his finger on

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

image Professor Callen had

huh?' Shang

and added a round

a bad place. If any

his head, but there was a bit of space left in his neck. Additionally, if he got hit there, he would die

different Mana pathways to the Mana reservoir inside his