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.

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

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

all the individual points, but

looked at the

there was the outline of his body and just a lot

Shang started to draw

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 fingers

pathway going through his arm, which ended

that for his entire

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 be able to move at like a fifth

the boost 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 change a Mana pathway, and

Shang looked at the diagram with

here, move

on what he was doing in his mind as he actually started to

furrowed more and

could actually do it,' Shang thought. 'I could actually

way I have designed all of this 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 straight like pipes, and it's not a problem to just add an

as

that. By now, I know that the world is very good

know how to simulate his Mana's movement before actually making the changes. Without that,

several minutes, but he eventually

was not

enough, there was

I have to create central pathways that are extremely

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

of their Mana. Additionally, the

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

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

tapped his

tapping and noticed

the image Professor Callen had

huh?' Shang

the diagram and added

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

space inside of his head, but there was

Mana pathways