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

could see thousands upon thousands of individual small points on the diagram. Luckily, the magical paper could draw new stuff

seeing all the individual points, but

at the

of his body and just a lot

to draw lines, connecting

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

through his

that for his entire body and looked

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

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

diagram

here, move over to here, do it

while, Shang stopped commenting on what he was doing in his

furrowed more and more as

Shang thought. 'I

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

scratched his chin as he looked at the

is no problem with that. By now, I know that the world is very good at

given Shang way more than just his Spell. After all, Shang also had to know how to simulate his Mana's movement before actually making

Shang several minutes, but

he was

was a humongous

to every spot in my body, I have to create central pathways

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

go of about 50% of their Mana. Additionally, the

my physical power, making my body only half as powerful as a beast

faster and with more flexibility and diversity. But due to my weakened body, the speed of my

his finger on one of

he was actually tapping and noticed

Shang remembered the image

Core, huh?'

diagram and added

a bad place. If any attack hit his chest,

but there was a bit of space left

Mana pathways to