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.

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

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

would have huge issues with seeing all

looked at the new

there was the outline of his body and

draw

of his fingers went to the middle of the finger and then

through his arm, which

his entire

And he snorted.

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 my speed with a fifth of my power without being able to

permanently. It takes a lot of Mana to change a Mana pathway, and if I lose access to too many of them, I might never be able to gather enough Mana to establish access

looked at the diagram with all

start here, move

he was doing in

and more as

it,' Shang thought. 'I could

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 additional one alongside the currently

his chin as he

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

Shang also had to know how to simulate his Mana's movement before actually making the changes.

minutes, but he eventually finished his

was not

enough, there was a

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

and the Mana

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

making my body only half as powerful as a beast on my

my weakened body, the speed of my attacks would remain about the same while their power

Shang thought as he tapped his finger on one of

looked at where he was actually tapping and noticed that he was tapping on the middle of the diagram's

the image Professor

huh?'

and added a round energy

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

inside of his head, but there was

all the different Mana pathways to the