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.

top of each other and marked

individual small points on the diagram. Luckily, the magical paper could draw new stuff with terrifying accuracy. It

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

looked at the

was the outline of his body and just a lot of

that, Shang started to draw lines, connecting all the

in one of his fingers went to the middle of the finger and then traveled down to the hand, where all the pathways from the

through his

that for his entire

And he snorted.

lengthy process, I would be mostly helpless. I would only

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, and if I lose access to too many of them,

looked at the diagram with all the changes

I would need to start here,

on what he was

brows furrowed more and more as

could actually do it,' Shang thought.

can't incorporate all the ones for my other States, I

as he

I know that the world is very good at creating Mana pathways, and if the solution were so

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

several minutes, but

he was not

enough, there was a humongous

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

humongous pathways require a lot of Mana to fill, and the Mana I can have inside my body is finite at any

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

lose about 50% of my physical power, making my body only half as powerful as a beast on

would be that I 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

his

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

Shang remembered the image Professor Callen had Shown

huh?' Shang

edited the diagram and added a round

this was a bad place. If any attack hit

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

Shang connected all the different Mana pathways