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.

each other and marked the spots where all his Mana pathways would

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 like

seeing all the individual points, but Shang's eyesight

looked at the new

his body and

started to draw lines, connecting all

individual points in one of his fingers went to the middle of the finger and then traveled down to the hand, where

drew a huge pathway going through his arm,

did that for his entire body and

And he snorted.

would be 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

them permanently. It takes a lot of Mana to change a Mana pathway, and if I lose access to

looked at the diagram

here,

he was doing in his mind as

brows furrowed more and

could actually do it,' Shang thought. 'I could actually make this

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 not a problem to just add an

chin as he looked at

to believe that there is no problem with that. By now, I know that the world

know how to simulate his Mana's movement before actually making the changes. Without that, Shang might build himself into a

but he eventually

he was

was

order to bring maximum speed to every spot in my body, I have to create central pathways that are

fill, and the Mana I can have inside my body is finite at any given

would need to let go of about 50% of their Mana. Additionally, the Mana required to actually

all, I would lose about 50% of my physical power, making

could attack far faster and with more flexibility and diversity. But due to my weakened body, the speed of my attacks would remain about the same while

tapped his finger on one of the

Shang looked at where he was actually tapping and noticed

image

Core, huh?'

diagram and

that this was a bad place. If any attack hit his chest, he would

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

the different Mana pathways to the Mana reservoir inside