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.

new diagrams on top of each other and marked the spots where all his Mana pathways would lead

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

would have huge issues with seeing all

looked at

outline of his body and just a lot

started to draw lines, connecting all the

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

through his

his entire body and

And he snorted.

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

from the advancement. If I change all the Mana pathways, I might lose access to some of them permanently. It takes a lot of Mana to

looked at the diagram with

need to start here, move over to

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

more and more as he

do it,' Shang thought. 'I could

Assuming my new pathways can't incorporate all the ones for my other States, I can just add new ones.

chin as he looked at

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

to know how to simulate his Mana's movement before actually making the changes. Without that, Shang might build himself into a corner with no

minutes, but he eventually

was not

there was

to every spot in my body, I have to

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

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

in all, I would lose about 50% of my physical power, making my body only half

could attack far faster and with more flexibility and diversity. But due to my weakened body, the

tapped his finger

a while, Shang looked at where he was actually tapping and noticed that he was tapping on the middle of

the image Professor Callen had

huh?' Shang

and added a

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

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

Shang connected all the different Mana pathways to