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

several minutes, Shang could see thousands upon thousands of individual small points on the diagram. Luckily, the magical paper could draw new stuff with terrifying accuracy. It was almost

huge issues with seeing all the individual points,

at

was the outline of his body and

that, Shang started to draw lines,

finger and then traveled down to the hand, where all the pathways from the fingers

through

entire body and looked at

And he snorted.

that easy,' Shang 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

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

the diagram with all the changes

here, move over to

commenting on what he was doing in his mind as he actually started to

brows furrowed more and more as he

it,' Shang thought. 'I

for my other States, I can

scratched his chin as he

know that the world is very good at creating Mana pathways, and if the solution were so simple, I wouldn't have

know how to simulate his Mana's movement before actually making the

Shang several minutes, but

he was not

there was

in my body, I have to create central pathways that

the Mana I can have inside my body is finite

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

power, making my body only half as

due to my weakened body, the speed of my

he tapped his finger

was actually tapping and noticed

remembered the image Professor Callen

huh?'

edited the diagram and added

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

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

connected all the different Mana pathways to the Mana