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.

on top of each other and marked the spots where all his Mana

thousands of individual small points on the diagram. Luckily, the magical paper could draw new stuff with terrifying accuracy. It was almost like a

normal human would have huge issues with seeing all the individual points, but

at the new

outline of his

Shang started to draw lines,

points 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

a huge pathway going through his arm,

that for his entire

And he snorted.

completely recreate all my Mana pathways. Even more, during the lengthy process, I would be mostly

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

at the diagram

I would need to start here, move over

commenting on what he was doing in his mind as

furrowed more and more

it,' Shang thought. 'I

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

scratched his chin as he looked

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

more than just his Spell. After all, Shang also had 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 way to

but he eventually finished

was

there was a

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

lot of Mana to fill, and the Mana I can

need, my muscles would need to let go of about 50% of their

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

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

his finger on one of the

tapping and noticed that he was tapping on the middle of the diagram's

the image Professor Callen

huh?' Shang

and added a round energy

this was a bad place. If any attack hit his

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

pathways to the Mana